Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Hugo Riemann's moonshine experiment
- 2 The responsibilities of nineteenth-century music theory
- 3 Riemann's musical logic and the ‘As if’
- 4 Musical syntax, nationhood and universality
- 5 Beethoven's deafness, exotic harmonies and tone imaginations
- Epilogue
- Glossary: Riemann's key terms as explained in the Musik-Lexikon (5th edn, 1900)
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Hugo Riemann's moonshine experiment
- 2 The responsibilities of nineteenth-century music theory
- 3 Riemann's musical logic and the ‘As if’
- 4 Musical syntax, nationhood and universality
- 5 Beethoven's deafness, exotic harmonies and tone imaginations
- Epilogue
- Glossary: Riemann's key terms as explained in the Musik-Lexikon (5th edn, 1900)
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003