1st Edition

Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory Essays in Honor of Kevin Korsyn

Edited By Bryan Parkhurst, Jeffrey Swinkin Copyright 2024
362 Pages 130 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

362 Pages 130 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

362 Pages 130 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.