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Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory Leslie D. Blasius Studies in Music Theory and Analysis vol. 9 New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996 200 pp.

Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory Leslie D. Blasius Studies in Music Theory and... For truly I have been detached, as rarely anyone has is the past, from all roots and from the very earth which nutures them. I was born in 1881 in a great and mighty empire, in the monarchy of the Habsburgs. But do not look for it on the map; it has been swept away without a trace. —Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1964) Every year I have to answer The Question. “Did they all talk like that?” asks some bright (but still slightly annoyed) graduate student. This 176 year The Question was politely reserved for after the end of the second meeting of my graduate Schenker seminar, a meeting spent discussing what Schenker thought he was up to (both in those particular passages from Harmony—the preface and first chapter—that had constituted the first reading assignment, and more generally in the broader and, in 1906 of course, still largely unrealized project upon which he was embarking), and to whom his works would have been addressed. I answered her as gently as I could while still being truthful, which is to say I broke the bad news to her, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Music Theory Duke University Press

Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory Leslie D. Blasius Studies in Music Theory and Analysis vol. 9 New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996 200 pp.

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Journal of Music Theory , Volume 45 (1) – Jan 1, 2001
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2001 by Yale University
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0022-2909
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10.1215/00222909-45-1-176
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For truly I have been detached, as rarely anyone has is the past, from all roots and from the very earth which nutures them. I was born in 1881 in a great and mighty empire, in the monarchy of the Habsburgs. But do not look for it on the map; it has been swept away without a trace. —Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1964) Every year I have to answer The Question. “Did they all talk like that?” asks some bright (but still slightly annoyed) graduate student. This 176 year The Question was politely reserved for after the end of the second meeting of my graduate Schenker seminar, a meeting spent discussing what Schenker thought he was up to (both in those particular passages from Harmony—the preface and first chapter—that had constituted the first reading assignment, and more generally in the broader and, in 1906 of course, still largely unrealized project upon which he was embarking), and to whom his works would have been addressed. I answered her as gently as I could while still being truthful, which is to say I broke the bad news to her, and

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