Ernst Kurth: Selected Writings (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, Series Number 2)

this Book Provides Extensive Annotated Translations Of The Writings Of The Music Theorist Ernst Kurth (1886-1946). Frontmatter Foreword by Ian Bent (page xi) Preface (page xiii) Notes on the translation (page xvi) Introduction (page 1) Part I Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts (Foundations of linear counterpoint) (page 35) 1 Polyphonic structure (page 37) 2 Thematic and motivic processes (page 58) 3 Polyphonic melody (page 75) Part II Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners "Tristan" (Romantic harmony and its crisis in Wagners "Tristan") (page 97) 4 Details of Romantic harmony (page 99) 5 Broader dimensions of Romantic harmony (page 130) Part III Bruckner 6 Bruckner's form as undulatory phases (page 151) 7 Details of Bruckner's symphonic waves (page 188) Appendix: Complete tables of contents for Kurth's Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts, Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners "Tristan" and Bruckner (page 208) Select bibliography (page 219) Index of musical examples (page 228) General Index (page 230) 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