Elephants, Crocodiles, and Beethoven: Schenker's Politics and the Pedagogy of Schenkerian Analysis

Abstract

The learned editors of whom Byron writes were trying to safeguard the questionable innocence of adolescent schoolboy readers while at the same time remaining faithful to their Greek and Latin authors a hopelessly self-contradictory enterprise. All that their transplanting accomplished was to facilitate their readers' gorging themselves on the forbidden fruit, now conveniently gathered into one place. Such editions, by the way, really existed and in fact still do, and in our own