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Nicholas Cook, The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). ix + 355pp. £41

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2011

Benjamin McKay Ayotte
Benjamin McKay Ayotte
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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , November 2009 , pp. 124 - 128
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References

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2 Schenker, Heinrich, Der Tonwille: Pamphlets in Witness to the Immutable Laws of Music, vol. 4, ed. Drabkin, William, trans. Bent, Ian, Snarrenberg, Robert, Lubben, Robert Joseph et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004): 160.Google Scholar

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These are also cited in Beaumont, Anthony, ed., Ferruccio Busoni: Selected Letters (London and Boston, MA: Faber and Faber, 1987).Google Scholar

11 Schenker, Free Composition.

12 Schenker, Counterpoint.

13 Beller, Steven was a cultural historian and author of Vienna and the Jews, 1867–1938: A Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).Google Scholar

14 Borgese, Elizabeth, Harmony, ed. Jonas, Oswald (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954),Google Scholar reprint ed., 1980. The ‘Last Five Beethoven Sonatas’ are cited as: Die letzten fünf Sonaten von Beethoven, Kritische Ausgabe mit Einführung und Erläuterung. Sonate E dur, op. 109 (Vienna: Universal Edition, 1913),Google Scholar rev. ed. edited by Oswald Jonas, 1971 as U.-E. 3976; Sonate As dur, op. 110 (Vienna: Universal Edition, 1914), rev. ed. edited by Oswald Jonas 1972 as U.-E. 3977Google Scholar; Sonate C moll, op. 111 (Vienna: Universal Edition, 1916),Google Scholar rev. ed. edited by Oswald Jonas 1971 as U.-E. 3978; Sonate A dur, op. 101 (Vienna: Universal Edition, 1920),Google Scholar rev. ed. edited by Oswald Jonas, 1972 as U.-E. 3974. The fifth remains unpublished because the manuscript is not extant.