The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siecle Vienna - Brossura

Cook, Nicholas

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ISBN 10: 0199744297 ISBN 13: 9780199744299

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2010

Riassunto

Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and beyond that, as addressing fundamental cultural, social, and political problems of the deeply troubled age in which he lived. This book aims at an understanding of Schenker's project through reading his key works within a series of period contexts. These include music criticism, the field in which Schenker first made his name; Viennese modernism, particularly the debate over architectural ornamentation; German cultural conservatism, which is the source of many of Schenker's most deeply entrenched values; and Schenker's own position as a Galician Jew who came to Vienna just as traditional anti-semitism was becoming fully racialized. As well as presenting an unfamiliar perspective on the cultural and political ferment of fin-de-siècle Vienna, this approach reveals how deeply the social and political were thought into Schenker's theory. It also raises issues concerning the meaning and value of music theory, and the extent to which today's music-theoretical agenda unwittingly reflects the values and concerns of a very different world.

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Recensione:

characterized by an always-maintained balance of grace, elegance, intellectual rigour, thorough and meticulous scholarship, clearly laid out argumentation and a wry humour (Nineteenth-Century Music Review)

L'autore:

Nicholas Cook is Professor of Music at Cambridge University. He was Professorial Research Fellow in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he directs the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). He is the author of articles and books on a wide variety of musicological and theoretical subjects (his Music: A Very Short Introduction has been translated into ten languages). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.

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• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199744297
• ISBN 13: 9780199744299
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368