Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings
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- Real Author: Ernst Kurth
- Editor: Lee A. Rothfarb
- Date Published: November 2006
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- isbn: 9780521028240
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This is the first publication to provide extensive annotated translations from the writings of the music theorist Ernst Kurth (1886-1946), who wrote three pioneering studies on the music of J.S. Bach, Richard Wagner and Anton Bruckner. The book will familiarize today's English-speaking scholars with Kurth's theoretical ideas and innovative analytical strategies through his commentaries on the passages from these composers. An extensive introductory essay discusses the intellectual and socio-cultural background required for understanding Kurth's work.
Read more- 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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"Not only has Rothfarb mastered a wealth of material from Kurth's four principal writings, he has sifted as well through the complexity and abundance of thought, has organized it cogently, and has honed a precise yet fluent prose style of his own that reveals with impressive clarity Kurth's governing ideas and 'pre-analytic attitudes'." Notes
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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.
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