Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory

Contents

• Foreword Ian Bent
• Preface
• Part I . The Appeal to Psychology:
• 1. A new program for music theory
• 2. The psychologistic argument
• 3. The contrapuntal laboratory
• 4. An epistemological crisis and a plausible solution
• 5. A descriptive and analytic psychology
• Part II . The Historiological Imperative:
• 6. The authority of history
• 7. The improvisational imagination, editing, execution
• 8. The interior performance
• 9. The paleographic argument
• 10. The philological paradigm
• Part III . The Objective Synthesis:
• 11. The coordination of discourses
• 12. System and synthesis
• 13. Closure
• 14. Representation
• 15. A priori and a posteriori theories
• 16. Two polemics
• 17. The function of ideology
• Bibliography
• Indexes.