Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory - Essays in Honor of Kevin Korsyn

Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. This book is a festschrift for Korsyn, comprised of essays that constellate around his numerous scholarly foci.

List of contents

Introduction
An Interview with Kevin Korsyn
I. CLOSE READING AND THE PROBLEMATICS OF ANALYSIS
Chapter 1. Extraordinary Measures: Disability and Metrical Conflict in Schubert's 'Der blinde Knabe'
Chapter 2. Rethinking Self-referentiality in Schubert's Setting of Platen's 'Die Liebe hat gelogen,' D. 751 (op. 23, no. 1)
Chapter 3. The E-Flat/B Complex in Nineteenth-Century Music and its Hermeneutic Dimensions
II. COMPOSITIONAL CONSTRAINTS AND COMPOSITIONAL PROCESS
Chapter 4. Take It Away: How Shortened and Missing Sections Energize Rondo Forms
Chapter 5. Beyond Constraints: Bach's Fugue in G minor from Book 2 of The Well-Tempered Clavier
III. MUSIC AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Chapter 6. Chopin's Preludes, Creatures of Prometheus, and the Posthuman
Chapter 7. Walter Riezler on the Unity of the Arts: Unsiloing Art and Music in the Weimar Era
Chapter 8. Completing the Triad: Schenker and Kantian Practical Philosophy
Chapter 9. Leni Riefenstahl's 'Ballet' Olympia

About the author

Bryan Parkhurst is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Philosophy at Oberlin College and Conservatory, U.S.A.
Jeffrey Swinkin is Associate Professor of Music (Theory) at The University of Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Summary

Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. This book is a festschrift for Korsyn, comprised of essays that constellate around his numerous scholarly foci.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan Swinkin Parkhurst
• Assisted by: Bryan Parkhurst (Editor), Jeffrey Swinkin (Editor), Swinkin Jeffrey (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032413730
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3241373-0
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Routledge Research in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Theory of music & musicology, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Western "classical" music