Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory

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.

• IntroductionAn Interview with Kevin KorsynI. CLOSE READING AND THE PROBLEMATICS OF ANALYSISChapter 1. Extraordinary Measures: Disability and Metrical Conflict in Schubert’s ‘Der blinde Knabe’Chapter 2. Rethinking Self-referentiality in Schubert’s Setting of Platen’s ‘Die Liebe hat gelogen,’ D. 751 (op. 23, no. 1)Chapter 3. The E-Flat/B Complex in Nineteenth-Century Music and its Hermeneutic DimensionsII. COMPOSITIONAL CONSTRAINTS AND COMPOSITIONAL PROCESSChapter 4. Take It Away: How Shortened and Missing Sections Energize Rondo FormsChapter 5. Beyond Constraints: Bach’s Fugue in G minor from Book 2 of The Well-Tempered ClavierIII. MUSIC AND INTERDISCIPLINARITYChapter 6. Chopin’s Preludes, Creatures of Prometheus, and the PosthumanChapter 7. Walter Riezler on the Unity of the Arts: Unsiloing Art and Music in the Weimar EraChapter 8. Completing the Triad: Schenker and Kantian Practical PhilosophyChapter 9. Leni Riefenstahl’s ‘Ballet’ Olympia