{"product_id":"the-schenker-project-culture-race-and-music-theory-in-fin-de-sicle-vienna-9780199744299","title":"The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-De-Siècle Vienna","description":"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\u003cbr\u003eeducation-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\u003cbr\u003eSchenker 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\u003cbr\u003eanti-semitism was developing there. As well as presenting an unfamiliar perspective on the cultural and political ferment of \u003cem\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003etheory, and the extent to which today's music-theoretical agenda unwittingly reflects the values and concerns of a very different world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Cook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199744299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicholas Cook\u003c\/strong\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003evariety of musicological and theoretical subjects (his \u003cem\u003eMusic: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e has been translated into ten languages). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39937647411315,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e48e30f4-9355-456c-9c6c-1750af53e1a5.jpg?v=1647994869","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-schenker-project-culture-race-and-music-theory-in-fin-de-sicle-vienna-9780199744299","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}