1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910828557403321

Autore

Rehding Alexander

Titolo

Hugo Riemann and the birth of modern musical thought / / Alexander Rehding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-511-09588-0

1-107-13635-0

1-280-43080-X

0-511-17928-6

1-139-14888-5

0-511-06178-1

0-511-05545-5

0-511-30631-8

0-511-48136-5

0-511-07024-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New perspectives in music history and criticism

Disciplina

780/.92

Soggetti

Music theory - History

Musicology - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Riemann's moonshine experiment -- The responsibilities of nineteenth-century music theory -- Riemann's musical logic and the 'as if' -- Musical syntax, nationhood and universality -- Beethoven's deafness and tone imaginations.

Sommario/riassunto

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.