Review of Lorraine Byrne Bodley and Julian Horton, eds.Rethinking Schubert(Oxford University Press, 2016)

Abstract

In the last two decades, Schubert has come to occupy a central position in Anglo-American and European music theory and musicology. (1)That the composer should find himself in such a position may seem unsurprising to future historians of theory; after all, many of the recent shifts in academic musical discourse-the interest in sexuality and identity studies, the emergence of neo-Riemannian theory, and the revival of Formenlehre-would seem to have created the ideal soil for renewed interest in him to take root.