Perspectives on Contemporary Music Theory

<p>Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist musicologist and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. He has published widely and influentially in areas as diverse as Beethoven and Brahms studies chromatic tonality disciplinarity and metatheory history of theory musical meaning and hermeneutics poststructuralism (deconstruction intertextuality etc.) and Schenkerian theory and analysis. Because of the scope and caliber of his published work and also his legacy as a pedagogue Korsyn has had a profound impact on the field of music theory along with the related fields of historical musicology and aesthetics.</p><p>This book a festschrift for Korsyn comprises essays that constellate around his numerous scholarly foci. Represented in the volume are not only familiar music-theoretical topics such as chromaticism form Schenker and text-music relations but also various interdisciplinary topics such as deconstruction disability studies German Idealism posthumanism and psychoanalysis. The book thus reflects the increasingly multifaceted intellectual landscape of contemporary music theory.</p>