The Schenker Project Culture Race and Music Theory in Fin de siecle Vienna 1st Edition by Nicholas Cook ISBN 0195170563 9780195170566

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ISBN 10: 0195170563

ISBN 13: 9780195170566 

Author: Nicholas Cook

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 to explain 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 fully racialized anti-semitism was developing there. As well as presenting an unfamiliar perspective on the cultural and political ferment of fin-de-siècle Vienna, this book reveals how deeply Schenker’s theory is permeated by the social and political. 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.

Table of contents:

Abbreviations

Introduction: Schenker’s Contexts

Chapter 1: Foundations of the Schenker Project

• Schenker and the Philosophers

• Formalists against Formalism

• Rehabilitating Musical Logic

Chapter 2

• The Reluctant Modernist

• Curlicues and Catastrophe

• Ornamentation and Critique in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

• Modernists against Modernism

• Reinventing the Classics

Chapter 3

• The Conservative Tradition

• Schenker’s Politics

• The Logic of Nostalgia

• The Anachronistic City

Chapter 4

• The Politics of Assimilation

• Schenker’s Project and Jewish Tradition

• The Logic of Alterity

• Schenker and Others

Chapter 5

• Beyond Assimilation

• Schenker’s Rosenhaus

• The Posthumous Schenker

Conclusion: Music Theory as Social Practice

Appendix: Heinrich Schenker, ‘The Spirit of Musical Technique’ (Der Geist der musikalischen Technik) Translated by William Pastille

References

Index

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