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Author Cook, Nicholas, 1950-

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

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML423.S34 C66 2007    Available  ---
Description xi, 355 pages : illustration, music ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-345) and index.
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.
Subject Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935.
Criticism and interpretation.
Music theory -- Social aspects -- Austria -- Vienna.
Music theory.
Social aspects.
Austria.
Vienna.
Austria -- Vienna.
Music theory -- Political aspects -- Austria -- Vienna.
ISBN 9780195170566 alkaline paper
0195170563 alkaline paper