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The Schenker Project
Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siecle Vienna
Nicholas Cook
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34 haltones, 6 line drawings
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235x156mm
978-0-19-974429-9
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22 April 2010
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- Ideal course adoption for graduate and upper-level undergraduate seminars on: Schenker and Schenkerian analysis; general theory and analysis; cultural musicology; and, interdisciplinary approaches to fin-de-siècle Vienna
- Interprets the work of the most important music theorist of the twentieth century as the expression of the cultural and political context from which it emerged
- Sheds new light on fin-de-siècle Vienna through reading Schenker's music-theoretical and other works
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.Readership: Music theorists and historians of theory generally, and teachers and students of Schenkerian theory in particular. This book will also have wider interest, including to musicologists and others interested in the culture, society, and politics of fin-de-siècle Vienna, or in the relationship between music theory and its social and historical context; It also speaks to people interested in modernism, in metropolitan culture and its relation to the periphery, and in Jewish studies. Ideal adoption for graduate and upper-level undergraduate seminars on: Schenker and Schenkerian analysis; general theory and analysis; cultural musicology; and, interdisciplinary approaches to fin-de-siècle
Vienna
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Nicholas Cook, Prof. of Music, University of Cambridge
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"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
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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
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