1st Edition
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. He has published widely and influentially in areas as diverse as Beethoven and Brahms studies, chromatic tonality, disciplinarity and metatheory, history of theory, musical meaning and hermeneutics, poststructuralism (deconstruction, intertextuality, etc.), and Schenkerian theory and analysis. Because of the scope and caliber of his published work, and also his legacy as a pedagogue, Korsyn has had a profound impact on the field of music theory, along with the related fields of historical musicology and aesthetics.
This book, a festschrift for Korsyn, comprises essays that constellate around his numerous scholarly foci. Represented in the volume are not only familiar music-theoretical topics such as chromaticism, form, Schenker, and text-music relations, but also various interdisciplinary topics such as deconstruction, disability studies, German Idealism, posthumanism, and psychoanalysis. The book thus reflects the increasingly multifaceted intellectual landscape of contemporary music theory.
Introduction
Bryan Parkhurst and Jeffrey Swinkin
An Interview with Kevin Korsyn
Part I. CLOSE READING AND THE PROBLEMATICS OF ANALYSIS
Chapter 1. Extraordinary Measures: Disability and Metrical Conflict in Schubert’s "Der blinde Knabe"
Harald Krebs
Chapter 2. Rethinking Self-Referentiality in Schubert’s Setting of Platen’s "Die Liebe hat gelogen," D. 751 (op. 23, no. 1)
René Rusch
Chapter 3. The E-flat/B Complex in Nineteenth-Century Music and its Hermeneutic Dimensions
Jeffrey Swinkin and Hayley Grigg
Part II. COMPOSITIONAL CONSTRAINTS AND COMPOSITIONAL PROCESS
Chapter 4. Take It Away: How Shortened and Missing Sections Energize Rondo Forms
Alan Gosman
Chapter 5. “All- Comprehending” Invertible Counterpoint: Bach’s Fugue in G minor from Book 2 of The Well- Tempered Clavier
Eric Wen
Part III. MUSIC AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Chapter 6. Chopin’s Preludes, Creatures of Prometheus, and the Posthuman
Michael L. Klein
Chapter 7. Walter Riezler on the Unity of the Arts: Unsiloing Art and Music in the Weimar Era
Elizabeth Sears
Chapter 8. Completing the Triad: Schenker and Kantian Practical Philosophy
Bryan Parkhurst
Chapter 9. Leni Riefenstahl’s "Ballet" Olympia
Patricia Hall
Biography
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.
