The Schenker project : culture, race, and music theory in fin-de-siècle Vienna / Nicholas Cook.

Author/creator Cook, Nicholas, 1950-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxi, 355 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
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Subjects

Contents Foundations of the Schenker project -- Schenker and the philosophers -- Formalists against formalism -- Rehabilitating musical logic -- The reluctant modernist -- Curlicues and catastrophe -- Ornamentation and critique in fin-de-siècle Vienna -- Modernists against modernism -- Reinventing the classics -- The conservative tradition -- Schenker's politics -- The logic of nostalgia -- The anachronistic city -- The politics of assimilation -- Schenker's project and Jewish tradition -- The logic of alterity -- Schenker and others -- Beyond assimilation -- Schenker's Rosenhaus -- The posthumous Schenker -- Conclusion : music theory as social practice.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 333-345) and index.
LCCN 2006031704
ISBN9780195170566 (alk. paper)
ISBN0195170563 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Course Reference ML423.S33 C66 2007 ✔ Available