The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siecle Vienna
- Author: Cook, Nicholas
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Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Schenker's contexts
- 1. Foundations of the Schenker project / Schenker and the philosophers / Formalists against formalism / Rehabilitating musical logic
- 2. The reluctant modernist / Curlicues and catastrophe / Ornamentation and critique in fin-de-siecle Vienna / Modernists against modernism / Alienated classics
- 3. The conservative tradition / Schenker's politics / The logic of nostalgia / The anachronistic city
- 4. The politics of assimilation / Schenker's project and Jewish tradition / The logic of alterity / Schenker and others
- 5. Beyond assimilation / Schenker's Rosenhaus / The posthumous Schenker
- Conclusion: music theory as social practice
- List of references
- Appendix: 'The spirit of musical technique', Translated by William Pastille
- Index