Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Rethinking the Politics of Social Capital: Challenging Tocquevillian Perspectives

“…In a sense, then, musicologists can historically be seen as the curators of a "museum of music", their role being to identify works worthy of preservation, and then to exhibit them in ways which demonstrated their greatness (for example by developing techniques of analysis such as that pioneered by Heinrich Schenker which privileges structure in such a way as to demonstrate the superiority of the values of the Austrian-German tradition -see, for example, Schenker 1971). In this role musicology could be seen as acting on behalf of society, ensuring that the great works of the past were preserved, and that contemporary and future composers would be exposed only to the most wholesome and productive works of the past.…”

Schenker's Vienna: Nicholas Cook on Culture, Race and Music Theory infin‐de‐siècle Austria

“…Although he does not mention Bloom, Cook also interprets Schenker's relationship to Wagner through the anxiety of influence. Cook believes that in the monograph on the Ninth Symphony, for example, the intensity of Schenker's polemic against Wagner might be explained by ‘a kind of anxiety of influence’ because Schenker ‘found some of his basic ideas in Wagner's writings’ (p. 86).…”

Performing Music: Shared Concerns

“…This highly original study uses empirical timing data to help demonstrate a correlation between Furtwangler's performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Schenker's 1912 analysis of the work(Schenker 1992). 12 and Percy Grainger's 1921 recording of Debussy's Toccata from Pour le Piano (issued on The Recital, Condon collection of rare performances, SBS MOOO 1-2, 1991).…”