This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. First, in

Generally acknowledged as the most important German musicologist of his age, Hugo Riemann (1849–1919) shaped the ideas of generations of music scholars, not l

In recent years neo-Riemannian theory has established itself as the leading approach of our time, and has proven particularly adept at explaining features of ch

The significantly expanded second edition of this book combines a fascinating account of the life and work of Bernhard Riemann with a lucid discussion of curren

Brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history.