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Austrian music theorist (1868-1935)
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2022-08-29 10:35:10
Georg Olms Verlag has just published Barry Wiener’s... The post Schenker, race and culture: the next chapter appeared first on Slippedisc.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-02-15 09:36:19
NY Times tones down musicology racism row
The paper sits squarely on the fence of the ugly row that has soiled the teaching of music theory at universities for the past 18 months. Briefly: It began when Philip Ewell, a Black music theory professor at Hunter College, New York, denounced the supreme theorist Heinrich Schenker as a racist. Tim Jackson, of the […]
2021-02-06 20:21:00
Haydn's Creation: Chaos and Light
The ‘Representation of Chaos’, with which The Creation opens, is justly the most celebrated number in the oratorio, and it is clear from the sketches that Haydn took unprecedented pains over its composition. Heinrich Schenker wrote of Haydn ‘stretching and straining’ his musical means, to recall in its mysteries ‘the mysteries of Chaos’. Without the aid – or constraint – of a text, the composer depicts the universe prior to the Creative act, whilst also prefiguring that act. This movement does not begin in C minor; it opens with an emphatic unison C, of indeterminate length and indeterminate tonality. As Hegel would point out in the second chapter of his Logic, an absolute – that is, a true beginning and basis for all subsequent determinations – cannot in itself be determinate. From the outset, Haydn evolves his tonality, but he does not immediately introduce a tonic […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-01-24 13:02:31
Music professor sues university for defamation
Professor Timothy Jackson has issued proceedings against the University of Northern Texas for removing him as editor of a music theory journal and calling an investigation into his defence of the theorist Heinrich Schenker, whom a colleague, Philip Ewell, attacked as racist. Jackson found himself hounded by a mob of international musoclogists who called for […]
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