Review – Nicholas Cook, The Schenker Project

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Simon Desbruslais

Abstract

The author offers a Review-Article on Nicolas Cook’s book The Schenker Project. The author subjects his object to a balanced analysis and provides its nonintrusive evaluations. This topic remains quite actual and, in a sense, rather slippery. The author presents the topic in a maximally objective fashion. He quotes Cook’s fundamental question, “What was Schenker’s problem, and in what way might his theory represent his solution to it?” To answer this and other issues, Cook sets out to place Schenker within a broader intellectual context than the musical or the philosophical. According the author’s view, Cook has succeeded in doing so and the results of his efforts will definitely impact the views on theory of Schenker.

Keywords: Schenker, musical culture of Vienna of the first half of the 20th century, music and politics

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How to Cite
Desbruslais, S. (2010). Review – Nicholas Cook, The Schenker Project. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 141–142. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/572
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Reviews of Western Publications
Author Biography

Simon Desbruslais, Christ Church, University of Oxford

Doctoral student at Christ Church, University of Oxford