Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought 1st Edition Hardcover New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism

Rehding, Alexander

ISBN 10: 0521820731 / ISBN 13: 9780521820738

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003

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REHDING, Alexander. Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First edition. 8vo. x, 218 pp. Illustrated with musical examples; glossary, bibliography, index. Original publisher's cloth, in original pictorial dust jacket. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, 11.

Condition: Fine/Near Fine, appears as unread, with inventory number in blue ink on first free endpaper. In Near Fine dust jacket with an unusual localized printing anomaly to the upper orange band, resulting in an irregular area of deficient orange ink at the left; the surface coating and texture remain uniform, most likely indicating a production defect rather than subsequent fading or wear.

Rehding's study reassesses the musical thought of Hugo Riemann (1849?1919), particularly harmonic dualism, by placing his theories in the wider intellectual context of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century natural science, German nationalism, technology, aesthetics, and the emerging academic discipline of musicology.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought 1st Edition Hardcover New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521820731
• ISBN 13: 9780521820738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Dimensions: 6W x 9H x 0.5D inches 6 inches width by 9 inches height by 0.5 inches depth
• Weight: 17.99 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Alexander Rehding is Cotsen Fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows. He is co-editor of Music Theory and Natural Order from the Renaissance to the Early Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press 2001). He was awarded the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Society in 2001.