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

Main Author: Cook, Nicholas, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Table of 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
  • Appendix : Heinrich Schenker, 'The spirit of musical technique' (Der Geist der musikalischen Technik) / translated by William Pastille.