Veröffentlichungen zur Musikforschung

The title "Music as ..." should not confuse, but rather draw attention: there are innumerable books entitled "Music and ..." (language, society, religion – fancy knows no limits) and certainly no further such volumes are needed. Using the little word "as" instead of "and" points to the large range of viewpoints from which the phenomenon music, so difficult to define, can reasonably be seen. Under no circumstances should it inspire new definition attempts through still more labels; far more it...

This is a publication on the composer Hans Rott, who died young in a lunatic asylum. He was Anton Bruckner’s pupil and Gustav Mahler’s fellow student. Bruckner stated that Rott was ”one of the most outstanding hopes“ and Mahler himself called him ”the founder of the New Symphony“. This work is based on a huge,and hitherto unexamined part of the estate of the historian Maja Loehr. Loehr was the daughter of one of Rott´s and Mahler´s closest friends,the archaeologist Friedrich Loewy/Loehr,...

Inhalt: Zur Kritik der Funktionstheorie / 'Linearer' Kontrapunkt und Harmonik in der Musiktheorie von Ernst Kurth / Zur Kritik der Konzeption von Stufe und Kontrapunkt in Heinrich Schenkers Musiktheorie / Übereinstimmungen und Divergenzen in Stimmführungsanalysen / Stimmführungsanalyse, Substanzgemeinschaft und Prozeßcharakter von Musik / Das Tonalitätsproblem