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Author Rehding, Alexander.

Title Hugo Riemann and the birth of modern musical thought / Alexander Rehding
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : illustrations
Series New perspectives in music history and criticism ; [no. 11]
New perspectives in music history and criticism ; 11.
Contents 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, exotic harmonies and tone imaginations
Summary 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
Analysis Humaniora Musik
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index
Notes English
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Subject Riemann, Hugo, 1849-1919 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Riemann, Hugo, 1849-1919 fast
Riemann, Hugo 1849-1919 gnd
Riemann, Hugo. swd
Subject Music theory -- History.
Musicology -- History
MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
Music theory
Musicology
Musiktheorie
Muziektheorie.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002031364
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