The Schenker Project

Zusatztext characterized by an always-maintained balance of grace, elegance, intellectual rigour, thorough and meticulous scholarship, clearly laid out argumentation and a wry humour Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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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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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.

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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