Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism)

Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) is generally acknowledged as the most important musicologist of his age. By analyzing his musical thought within the turn-of-the-century context of interest in the natural sciences, German nationhood and modern technology, this book reconstructs how Riemann's ideas not only "made sense" but advanced a belief of the tonal tradition as both natural and German. Riemann influenced the ideas of generations of music scholars because his work coincided with the institutionalization of academic musicology around the turn of the last century.


CONTENIDO:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Hugo Riemann?s moonshine experiment
2 The responsibilities of nineteenth-century music theory
3 Riemann?s musical logic and the ?As if?
4 Musical syntax, nationhood and universality
5 Beethoven?s deafness, exotic harmonies and tone imaginations
Epilogue
Glossary: Riemann?s key terms as explained in the Musik-Lexikon (5th edn, 1900)
Bibliography
Index