Der Tonwille Pamphlets in Witness of the Immutable Laws of Music, Volume I: Issues 1-5 (1921-1923)

by Schenker, Heinrich; Drabkin, William

• ISBN13: 9780195122374
• ISBN10: 0195122372
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The groundbreaking analytical techniques of Heinrich Schenker have had a powerful impact on the English-speaking musical world, and their importance, a century after he embarked on his major projects, is greater than ever. A central work in the Schenkerian canon, Der Tonwille, introduced theuse of voice-leading graphs that remains a critical tool for many music theorists today. This volume, the first of a two-volume English translation of Schenker's complete original text, makes these important contributions available to English readers for the first time. In the first five "issues" that make up Der Tonwille, Schenker analyzes piano sonatas by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, as well as shorter works including preludes by Bach and various classical keyboard pieces. The volume also includes the first two installments of a large-scale study ofBeethoven's Fifth Symphony which, in common with many of the other essays offered here, is comprised of a detailed analysis of the score, a commentary on the sketches and autograph and related textual problems, remarks on performance, and a critique of the literature on the symphony. Mostsignificantly, the essays in this volume are the first that consistently embrace the concept of "Urlinie" by coordinating an explanatory text with a "graph of the Urlinie" for each work discussed. It also contains the most extensive expression of Schenker's outspoken philosophical, political, andartistic beliefs, providing an important cultural perspective from which to view his theoretical work. Under the leadership of William Drabkin, a team of well-regarded musicologists has produced this skilled and lucid translation of Schenker's influential writings, an essential resource for English-reading musicologists and music theorists.

Table of Contents

German Words, Phrases, Technical Terms, and Abbreviations Used in the Music Examples
Bibliographical Abbreviations
The Mission of German Genius	p. 3
The Urlinie: A Preliminary Remark	p. 21
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony [first part]	p. 25
The E[flat] Minor Prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I	p. 34
Schubert's Ihr Bild	p. 41
Miscellanea	p. 44
Laws of the Art of Music	p. 51
History of the Art of Music	p. 52
Yet Another Word on the Urlinie	p. 53
Mozart's Sonata in A Minor, K. 310	p. 55
Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor, Op. 2, No.1	p. 72
Haydn's Sonata in E[flat] Major, Hoboken XVI:52	p. 99
The Art of Listening	p. 118
Miscellanea	p. 121
Bach's Little Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 924	p. 141
Bach's Little Prelude No. 2 in C Major, BWV 939	p. 145
The Allemande from Handel's Suite in G Major, HWV 441	p. 146
C. P. E. Bach's Allegro in G Major	p. 148
C. P. E. Bach's Keyboard Sonata in C Major	p. 150
Haydn's Sonata in C Major, Hoboken XVI:35	p. 153
Mozart's Sonata in C Major, K. 545	p. 156
Beethoven's Sonata in G Major, Op. 49, No.2	p. 158
Miscellanea	p. 160
Bach's Little Prelude No. 3 in C Minor, BWV 999	p. 175
Bach's Little Prelude No. 4 in D Major, BWV 925	p. 177
Bach's Little Prelude No. 5 in D Minor, BWV 926	p. 180
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (Continuation)	p. 182
Miscellanea	p. 210
Index	p. 227
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