Schenker Studies

The essays contained in this volume provide a focus on the work of the music theorist Heinrich Schenker.

Hedi Siegel (Edited by)

9780521106863, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 April 2009

220 pages
24.6 x 18.9 x 1.2 cm, 0.4 kg

The essays contained in this volume provide a focus on the work of the music theorist Heinrich Schenker - a figure of legendary status who has had an incalculable influence on developments in music theory and analysis in this century. His theories, not always fully understood, have aroused some controversy. The broad spectrum of essays presented here will help clarify Schenker's ideas and their application and will also serve as a useful introduction to his work for music theorists. The essays, written by fourteen leading theorists, originate in papers delivered at the Schenker Symposium held at The Mannes College of Music, New York in 1985.

Preface
Part I. Historical Studies: 1. Introduction
2. Schenkerian theory and manuscript studies: modes of interaction John Rothgeb
3. A source for Schenker's study of thorough bass: his annotated copy of J. S. Bach's Generalbassbuchlein Hedi Siegel
4. Music and morphology: Goethe's influence on Schenker's thought William Pastille
5. Schenkerian theory and the analysis of Renaissance music David Stern
6. Foreground, middleground and background: their significance in the history of tonality Saul Novack
Part II. Analytical Studies: 7. Introduction
8. Dual-key movements David Loeb
9. J. S. Bach's 'binary' dance movements: form and voice leading Larry Laskowski
10. Aspects of the Neapolitan sixth chord in Mozart's music Roger Kamien
11. Enharmonic transformation in the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491 Eric Wen
12. Schenker and chromatic tonicisation: a reappraisal Patrick McCreless
13. Departures from the norm in two songs from Schumann's Charles Burkhart
14. Either/or Carl Schachter
Part III. Schenker Studies Today: 15. Introduction
16. Schenkerian theory in Great Britain: developments and responses Jonathan Dunsby and John Rink
17. The Americanisation of Heinrich Schenker William Rothstein
Index.

Subject Areas: Music [AV]