Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought

by Alexander Rehding

Book Overview

Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) is generally acknowledged as the most important musicologist of his age. By analyzing his musical thought within the turn-of-the-century context of interest in the natural sciences, German nationhood and modern technology, this book reconstructs how Riemann's ideas not only made sense but advanced a belief of the tonal tradition as both natural and German. Riemann influenced the ideas of generations of music scholars because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521096367
• ISBN13: 9780521096362
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"