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Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought »

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Authors: Alexander Rehding
ISBN-13: 9780521096362, ISBN-10: 0521096367
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Alexander Rehding

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.

Book Synopsis

Demonstrates how Riemann's theories advanced an understanding of the tonal tradition as both natural and German.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction1
1Hugo Riemann's moonshine experiment15
2The responsibilities of nineteenth-century music theory36
3Riemann's musical logic and the 'As if'67
4Musical syntax, nationhood and universality113
5Beethoven's deafness, exotic harmonies and tone imaginations162
Epilogue182
Glossary: Riemann's key terms as explained in the Musik-Lexikon (5th edn, 1900)186
Biography199
Index212

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