{"product_id":"schenkers-argument-and-the-claims-of-music-theory-hardback-9780521550857","title":"Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory (Hardback) 9780521550857","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSchenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book provides a reassessment of the work of Heinrich Schenker.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeslie David Blasius (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521550857, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 October 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages, 13 music examples\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...distinguished by an extremely impressive breadth of research.\"   Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHeinrich 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 a sophisticated programme wherein Schenker situates his project in relation to these sciences, arguing his reading of the musical text as a synthesis of a descriptive psychology and an explanatory historiography (which itself embeds both paleographic and philological assumptions). This book rereads Schenker's project as an attempt to reconstruct music theory as a discipline against the background of the empirical musical sciences of the later nineteenth century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword Ian Bent\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Appeal to Psychology: 1. A new program for music theory\u003cbr\u003e 2. The psychologistic argument\u003cbr\u003e 3. The contrapuntal laboratory\u003cbr\u003e 4. An epistemological crisis and a plausible solution\u003cbr\u003e 5. A descriptive and analytic psychology\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Historiological Imperative: 6. The authority of history\u003cbr\u003e 7. The improvisational imagination, editing, execution\u003cbr\u003e 8. The interior performance\u003cbr\u003e 9. The paleographic argument\u003cbr\u003e 10. The philological paradigm\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Objective Synthesis: 11. The coordination of discourses\u003cbr\u003e 12. System and synthesis\u003cbr\u003e 13. Closure\u003cbr\u003e 14. Representation\u003cbr\u003e 15. A priori and a posteriori theories\u003cbr\u003e 16. Two polemics\u003cbr\u003e 17. The function of ideology\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Indexes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theory of music \u0026amp; musicology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theory of music \u0026amp; musicology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theory%20of%20music%20\u0026amp;%20musicology%20%5BAVA%5D%22\"\u003eAVA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46065973788952,"sku":"9780521550857","price":96.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521550857i.jpg?v=1691408466","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/schenkers-argument-and-the-claims-of-music-theory-hardback-9780521550857","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}