Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna |
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| Author:
| Karnes, Kevin |
| Series title: | AMS Studies in Music Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-536866-6 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2008 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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Examining pioneering and long-forgotten scholarly contributions by Eduard Hanslick, Guido Adler, and Heinrich Schenker, this book argues that music study, at the time of its academic institutionalization in the late 19th century, was a deeply conflicted endeavor, shaped as much by the skeptical pronouncements of Nietzsche and Wagner as it was by progressivist ideologies of scientific positivism, and that it was thereby inextricably tied in to the cultural discourse of its time.
Examining pioneering and long-forgotten scholarly contributions by Eduard Hanslick, Guido Adler, and Heinrich Schenker, this book argues that music study, at the time of its academic institutionalization in the late 19th century, was a deeply conflicted endeavor, shaped as much by the skeptical pronouncements of Nietzsche and Wagner as it was by progressivist ideologies of scientific positivism, and that it was thereby inextricably tied in to the cultural discourse of its time.