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Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings

Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings

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Part of Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis

  • Date Published: November 2006
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521028240

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  • This book provides a selection of annotated translations from Ernst Kurth's three best-known publications: Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts (1917), Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners 'Tristan' (1920), and Bruckner (1925). Kurth's contemporaries considered these books to be pioneering studies in the music of J. S. Bach, Wagner and Bruckner. Professor Rothfarb's extensive introductory essay discusses the intellectual and socio-cultural environment in which Kurth was writing, referring to aspects of the early twentieth-century cultural renewal movements and to intellectual developments of the day in phenomenology, aesthetics and psychology. By reading Kurth against the cultural-intellectual background provided in the essay and commentaries, today's music historians and theorists can round out their picture of music theory in the early twentieth century.

    • Ernst Kurth was an important German theorist
    • The book contains important perspectives on the music of J. S. Bach, Wagner and Bruckner
    • Rothfarb provides a valuable introductory essay on Kurth and his theories
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    • Date Published: November 2006
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521028240
    • length: 256 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 151 x 16 mm
    • weight: 0.391kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Foreword Ian Bent
    Preface
    Notes on the translation
    Introduction
    Part I. Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts (Foundations of linear counterpoint):
    1. Polyphonic structure 2. Thematic and motivic processes 3. Polyphonic melody
    Part II. Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners 'Tristan' (Romantic harmony and its crisis in Wagner's 'Tristan'):
    4. Details of Romantic harmony 5. Broader dimensions of Romantic harmony
    Part III. Bruckner:
    6. Bruckner's form as undulatory phases
    7. Details of Bruckner's symphonic waves
    Appendix: complete tables of contents for Kurth's Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts, Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners 'Tristan' and Bruckner
    Select bibliography
    Index of musical examples
    General index.

  • Author

    Ernst Kurth

    Editor

    Lee A. Rothfarb

    Contributors

    Ian Bent

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