Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Schenker's contexts
Chapter 1: Foundations of the Schenker project / Schenker and the
philosophers / Formalists against formalism / Rehabilitating
musical logic
Chapter 2:
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
List of references
Translated by William Pastille: Appendix: 'The spirit of musical
technique'
Index
Nicholas Cook is Professor of Music at Cambridge University. He was
Professorial Research Fellow in Music at Royal Holloway, University
of London, where he directs the AHRC Research Centre for the
History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). He is the author of
articles and books on a wide variety of musicological and
theoretical subjects (his Music: A Very Short Introduction has been
translated into ten languages). He was elected
Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.
"Cook...assembles yet another rich cultural study of this already
well-researched time period but with the added benefit of
illustrating the degree to which a field as seemingly abstract as
music theory can be a site of political contestation...The Schenker
Project offers a riveting account of how music comes to be 'imbued
with worldly meaning' (318)--a process that was not without its
dark side in the early decades of the twentieth century."
--Austrian History Yearbook
"Nicholas Cook has whipped up an intellectual feast for all those
interested in Schenker, his theories, and the cultural melting pot
of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Schenker's story-that of a Polish
Jew who became, in his own estimation, the only living
representative of German music-is too strange for fiction. Cook
brings to it impressive erudition, fair-mindedness, and a flair for
vivid narration."-William Rothstein, Professor of Music Theory at
Queens
College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New
York.
"The Schenker Project offers an even-handed and meticulously
researched account of the life's work of the twentieth century's
greatest theorist of tonal music, set squarely for the first time
in the culture of the fin-de-siècle Vienna. This is intellectual
history at its best. Persuasive in both its large-scale narrative
sweep and in its wealth of provocative insights along the way, this
book's impact on Schenkerian studies will be felt for
years to come."- Patrick McCreless, Professor of Music Theory, Yale
University
"Nicholas Cook has whipped up an intellectual feast for all those
interested in Schenker, his theories, and the cultural melting pot
of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Schenker's story-that of a Polish
Jew who became, in his own estimation, the only living
representative of German music-is too strange for fiction. Cook
brings to it impressive erudition, fair-mindedness, and a flair for
vivid narration."-William Rothstein, Professor of Music Theory at
Queens
College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New
York.
"The Schenker Project offers an even-handed and meticulously
researched account of the life's work of the twentieth century's
greatest theorist of tonal music, set squarely for the first time
in the culture of the fin-de-siècle Vienna. This is intellectual
history at its best. Persuasive in both its large-scale narrative
sweep and in its wealth of provocative insights along the way, this
book's impact on Schenkerian studies will be felt for
years to come."- Patrick McCreless, Professor of Music Theory, Yale
University
"Cook adds to our understanding of music theory and fin de siècle
Viennese politics and culture." --Musica Judaica Online Reviews
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