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THE SCHENKER PROJECT
CULTURE, RACE, AND MUSIC THEORY IN FIN-DE-SIECLE VIENNA |
| By: |
Nicholas Cook |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£47.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199744297 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199744299 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
22 April, 2010 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
This book interprets the music theory of Henrich Schenker (1868-1935) as part of 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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 a |
| Illustrations: |
34 haltones, 6 line drawings |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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