Harper-Scott

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

J. P. E. Harper-Scott is Emeritus Professor of Music History and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Event of Music History, Ideology in Britten’s Operas, The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism, and Edward Elgar, Modernist.

Oliver Chandler is an academic professor at the Royal College of Music and stipendiary lecturer in music at Keble and Hertford Colleges, University of Oxford. He is the author of A Twelve-Tone Repertory for Guitar: Julian Bream and the British Serialists, 1956-1983.