Authors: Alexander Rehding
ISBN-13: 9780521096362, ISBN-10: 0521096367
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
Demonstrates how Riemann's theories advanced an understanding of the tonal tradition as both natural and German.
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Hugo Riemann's moonshine experiment | 15 |
2 | The responsibilities of nineteenth-century music theory | 36 |
3 | Riemann's musical logic and the 'As if' | 67 |
4 | Musical syntax, nationhood and universality | 113 |
5 | Beethoven's deafness, exotic harmonies and tone imaginations | 162 |
Epilogue | 182 | |
Glossary: Riemann's key terms as explained in the Musik-Lexikon (5th edn, 1900) | 186 | |
Biography | 199 | |
Index | 212 |