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Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History
Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna
Kevin Karnes
228 pages
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6 halftones, 3 line illustrations
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234x156mm
978-0-19-536866-6
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Hardback
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21 August 2008
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- Challenges prevailing views of modern musicology's birth, institutionalization, and early development
- Offers new and fascinating portraits of well-known figures (Hanslick, Schenker, and Adler)
More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization. Author Kevin Karnes contends that some of the most vital questions surrounding musicology's disciplinary identities today-the relationship between musicology and criticism, the role of the subject in analysis and the narration of history, and the responsibilities of the scholar to the listening
public-originate in these conflicted and largely forgotten beginnings.
Karnes lays bare the nature of music study in the late nineteenth century through insightful readings of long-overlooked contributions by three of musicology's foremost pioneers-Adler, Eduard Hanslick, and Heinrich Schenker. Shaped as much by the skeptical pronouncements of the likes of Nietzsche and Wagner as it was by progressivist ideologies of scientific positivism, the new discipline comprised an array of oft-contested and intensely personal visions of music study, its value, and its future. Karnes introduces readers to a Hanslick who rejected the call of positivist scholarship and dedicated himself to penning an avowedly subjective history of Viennese musical life. He argues that
Schenker's analytical experiments had roots in a Wagner-inspired search for a critical alternative to Adler's style-obsessed scholarship. And he illuminates Adler's determined response to Nietzsche's warnings about the vitality of artistic and cultural life in an increasingly scientific age. Through sophisticated and meticulous presentation, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History demonstrates that the new discipline of musicology was inextricably tied in with the cultural discourse of its time.Readership: Musicologists interested in historiography, music criticism, ideologies of music research, and questions of disciplinary identity, students and scholars of European history and philosophy interested in the
place of music, music criticism, and academic music study in late nineteenth-century Austrian and Greater German cultural life.
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Kevin Karnes, Emory University
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"A number of figures, tables and previously unpublished photographs and drawings add to the appeal and usefulness of the book. It is to be further valued for the elegant and idiomatic translations it contains." - Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland "an impressive achievement, offering a provocative and useful reappraisal of a key phase in the history of musicology" - Music and Letters
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Introduction
Part I: Eduard Hanslick and the Challenge of Musikwissenschaft
1: Forgotten Histories and Uncertain Legacies
2: Music Criticism as Living History
Part II: Heinrich Schenker and the Challenge of Criticism
3: Music Analysis as Critical Method
4: Composer, Critic, and the Problem of Creativity
Part III: Guido Adler and the Problem of Science
5: A Science of Music for an Ambivalent Age
6: German Music in an Age of Positivism
Epilogue. Into the Twentieth Century
Notes, Bibliography, Index
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