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Music, criticism, and the challenge of history : shaping modern musical thought in late nineteenth-century Vienna / Kevin C. Karnes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karnes, Kevin, 1972-
- Series:
- AMS studies in music.
- AMS studies in music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hanslick, Eduard, 1825-1904--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hanslick, Eduard.
- Adler, Guido, 1855-1941--Criticism and interpretation.
- Adler, Guido.
- Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935--Criticism and interpretation.
- Schenker, Heinrich.
- Musicology--Austria--Vienna--History--19th century.
- Musicology.
- Music theory--Austria--Vienna--History--19th century.
- Music theory.
- Musical criticism--Austria--Vienna--History--19th century.
- Musical criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, this volume provides a view of the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization.
- Contents:
- Introduction : The spirit of positivism and the search for alternatives : musicology and criticism at the end of the nineteenth century
- Eduard Hanslick and the challenge of Musikwissenschaft. Forgotten histories and uncertain legacies ; Music criticism as living history
- Heinrich Schenker and the challenge of criticism. Music analysis as critical method ; Composer, critic, and the problem of creativity
- Guido Adler and the problem of science. A science of music for an ambivalent age ; German music in an age of positivism
- Epilogue : into the twentieth century.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0190451343
- 019062843X
- 0199709408
- 1281852171
- 9786611852177
- OCLC:
- 268652040
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