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Schenker's argument and the claims of music theory

By Leslie David Blasius

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0521550858, 0521030099, 0511586140, 9780511586149, 9780521030090, 9780521550857
LCC
MT6.B642 S3 1996
Open Library ID
OL7714668M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1102320 bytes)
Series
Cambridge studies in music theory and analysis 9
Edition
First Edition
Pages
172\172
Topic
Art Music: Guitar
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Heinrich Schenker's theoretical and analytical method occupies a central (and often troubling) position in modern Anglo-American musical studies. His writings claim to resubstantiate the unique artistic presence of the canonic work, and reject those disciplines, such as psychoacoustics and systematic musicology, which derive from the natural sciences. This book rereads Schenker's project as an attempt to reconstruct music theory as a discipline against the background of the new empirical musical sciences of the later nineteenth century, such as the psychological and historical investigations of music.

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