Foundations of the Schenker project: Schenker and the philosophers ; Formalists against formalism ; Rehabilitating musical logic -- The reluctant modernist: Curlicues and catastrophe ; Ornamentation and critique in fin-de-siècle Vienna ; Modernists against modernism ; Reinventing the classics -- The conservative tradition: Schenker's politics ; The logic of nostalgia ; The anachronistic city -- The politics of assimilation: Schenker's project and Jewish tradition ; The logic of alterity ; Schenker and others -- Beyond assimilation: Schenker's Rosenhaus ; The posthumous Schenker -- Conclusion : music theory as social practice -- Appendix: Herinch Schenker: 'The spirit of musical technicque' / translated by William Pastille

Today we think of Heinrich Schenker, who lived in Vienna from 1884 until his death in 1935, as the most influential music theorist of the twentieth century. But he saw his theoretical writings as part of a comprehensive project for the reform of musical composition, performance, criticism, and education-and beyond that, as addressing fundamental cultural, social, and political problems of the deeply troubled age in which he lived