The schenker project: culture, race, and music theory in fin-de-siecle Vienna

This book interprets the music theory of Henrich Schenker (1868-1935) as partof a comprehensive project encompassing not just musical reform but social and political critique. It sets his work into the contexts of Viennese modernism, German cultural conservatism, and Schenker's position as a Jewish immigrant to the city where modern anti-semitism first developed. INDICE: Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Schenker's contexts; 1.: Foundations of the Schenker project. Schenker and the philosophers. Formalists against formalism. Rehabilitating musical logic; 2.: The reluctant modernist. Curlicues and catastrophe. Ornamentation and critique in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Modernists against modernism. Alienated classics; 3.: The conservative tradition. Schenker's politics. The logic of nostalgia. The anachronistic city; 4.: The politics of assimilation. Schenker's project and Jewish tradition. The logic of alterity. Schenker and others; 5.: Beyond assimilation. Schenker's Rosenhaus. The posthumous Schenker; Conclusion: music theory as social practice; List of references; Appendix: 'The spirit of musical technique', Translated by William Pastille; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-974429-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 22/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés