The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siecle Vienna

The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siecle Vienna

by NicholasCook (Author)

Synopsis

This book interprets the music theory of Henrich Schenker (1868-1935), as part of a project encompassing musical reform and 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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 11 Oct 2007

ISBN 10: 0195170563
ISBN 13: 9780195170566