Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought

By:

Alexander Rehding

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Paperback / softback

Series:

New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism

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Generally acknowledged as the most important German musicologist of his age, Hugo Riemann (1849–1919) shaped the ideas of generations of music scholars, not least because his work coincided with the institutionalisation of academic musicology around the turn of the last century. This influence, however, belies the contentious idea at the heart of his musical thought, an idea he defended for most of his career - harmonic dualism. By situating Riemann's musical thought within turn-of-the-century discourses about the natural sciences, German nationhood and modern technology, this book reconstructs the cultural context in which Riemann's ideas not only 'made sense' but advanced an understanding of the tonal tradition as both natural and German. Riemann's musical thought - from his considerations of acoustical properties to his aesthetic and music-historical views - thus regains the coherence and cultural urgency that it once possessed.

Author Biography:

Alexander Rehding is Cotsen Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows. He is co-editor of Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press 2001). He was awarded the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Society in 2001.

Release date NZ

January 11th, 2009

Author

Alexander Rehding

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

47 Printed music items

Pages

232

Series

New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism

Dimensions

152x229x13

ISBN-13

9780521096362

Product ID

2823018

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