The Schenker Project - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Schenker Project write by Nicholas Cook. This book was released on 2007-09-28. The Schenker Project available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and beyond that, as addressing fundamental cultural, social, and political problems of the deeply troubled age in which he lived. This book aims to explain Schenker's project through reading his key works within a series of period contexts. These include music criticism, the field in which Schenker first made his name; Viennese modernism, particularly the debate over architectural ornamentation; German cultural conservatism, which is the source of many of Schenker's most deeply entrenched values; and Schenker's own position as a Galician Jew who came to Vienna just as fully racialized anti-semitism was developing there. As well as presenting an unfamiliar perspective on the cultural and political ferment of fin-de-siècle Vienna, this book reveals how deeply Schenker's theory is permeated by the social and political. It also raises issues concerning the meaning and value of music theory, and the extent to which today's music-theoretical agenda unwittingly reflects the values and concerns of a very different world.
The Schenker Project
The Schenker Project - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Schenker Project write by Nicholas Cook. This book was released on 2007-09-28. The Schenker Project available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony
Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony write by Robert W. Wason. This book was released on 2020. Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro-Germanic music theory ca. 1900.
Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata
Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata write by Nicholas Marston. This book was released on 2013. Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Sonata available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1912 Heinrich Schenker contracted with the publisher Universal Edition to provide an 'elucidatory edition' (Erläuterungsausgabe) of Beethoven's last five piano sonatas. But that of the 'Hammerklavier' Sonata, op. 106, was never published. As Nicholas Marston shows in a detailed history of the Erläuterungsausgabe, despite Schenker's failure to complete the project, he nevertheless developed a voice-leading analysis of the sonata during the years 1924-1926. Marston's book provides the first in-depth study of this rich analysis, which is reproduced in full in high-quality digital images.
The Psychophysical Ear
The Psychophysical Ear - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Psychophysical Ear write by Alexandra Hui. This book was released on 2012-11-16. The Psychophysical Ear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria. In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began to hear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical ensembles began to make their way to European cities and classical music introduced new compositional trends. At the same time, leading physicists, physiologists, and psychologists were preoccupied with understanding the sensory perception of sound from a psychophysical perspective, seeking a direct and measurable relationship between physical stimulation and physical sensation. These scientists incorporated specific sounds into their experiments—the musical sounds listened to by upper middle class, liberal Germans and Austrians. In The Psychophysical Ear, Alexandra Hui examines this formative historical moment, when the worlds of natural science and music coalesced around the psychophysics of sound sensation, and new musical aesthetics were interwoven with new conceptions of sound and hearing. Hui, a historian and a classically trained musician, describes the network of scientists, musicians, music critics, musicologists, and composers involved in this redefinition of listening. She identifies a source of tension for the psychophysicists: the seeming irreconcilability between the idealist, universalizing goals of their science and the increasingly undeniable historical and cultural contingency of musical aesthetics. The convergence of the respective projects of the psychophysical study of sound sensation and the aesthetics of music was, however, fleeting. By the beginning of the twentieth century, with the professionalization of such fields as experimental psychology and ethnomusicology and the proliferation of new and different kinds of music, the aesthetic dimension of psychophysics began to disappear.
