Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory

by Leslie David Blasius

Book Overview

Heinrich Schenker's theoretical and analytical works claim to resubstantiate the unique artistic presence of the canonic work, and thus reject those musical disciplines such as psychoacoustics and systematic musicology which derive from the natural sciences. In this respect his writing reflects the counter-positivism endemic to the German academic discourse of the first decades of the twentieth century. The rhetoric of this stance, however, conceals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521030099
• ISBN13: 9780521030090
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"