The Schenker project : culture, race, and music theory in fin-de-siècle Vienna
By: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780195170566
Subjects: Schenker, Heinrich, -- 1868-1935 -- Criticism and interpretation; Music theory -- Social aspects -- Austria -- Vienna; Music theory -- Political aspects -- Austria -- Vienna
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-345) and index
Table of contents: title: Foundations of the Schenker project; title: Schenker and the philosophers; title: Formalists against formalism; title: Rehabilitating musical logic; title: The reluctant modernist; title: Curlicues and catastrophe; title: Ornamentation and critique in fin-de-siècle Vienna; title: Modernists against modernism; title: Reinventing the classics; title: The conservative tradition; title: Schenker's politics; title: The logic of nostalgia; title: The anachronistic city; title: The politics of assimilation; title: Schenker's project and Jewish tradition; title: The logic of alterity; title: Schenker and others; title: Beyond assimilation; title: Schenker's Rosenhaus; title: The posthumous Schenker; title: Conclusion : music theory as social practice