SchenkerGUIDE: A Brief Handbook and Website for Schenkerian Analysis

by Pankhurst; Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780415973984
• ISBN10: 0415973988
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Schenkerian Analysis: A Basic Introduction introduces students of music theory and composition to the fundamental concepts and methods of this system of musical analysis. For many students, understanding and using this system is a daunting task; not only does the theory present its own special language, it involves learning specific skills, from how to make analytical charts to outlining a composition. This book offers the first clear and simple way to learn this technique. Although aimed at the beginning student, this book does more than just introduce the basics. It takes the student step-by-step from making a basic Schenkerian graph through the more difficult aspects of advanced work. For this reason, it could serve both as a text to be used as part of a broader course on theory as well as for more advanced seminars on Schenkerian technique alone. In short, Schenkerian Analysis: A Basic Introduction sets a new standard for a comprehensive, understandable introduction to thisimportant theory.

Author Biography

Tom Pankhurst is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University

Table of Contents

List of figure and examples	p. viii
Preface	p. xiii
An overview of Schenkerian analysis	p. 1
An introduction to the concepts of Schenkerian analysis	p. 3
Schenkerian analysis: some key ideas	p. 5
An overview of the basics	p. 10
Music and elaboration	p. 10
Basic melodic elaborations	p. 21
Further elaborations	p. 32
Larger-scale structures	p. 50
Bass prolongations	p. 51
Elaborations of the bass	p. 52
Two-part contrapuntal structures	p. 54
Closure and the descending line	p. 55
Variants of the Urlinie	p. 60
The main prolongations of the Ursatz	p. 63
Compound melody and background prolongations	p. 63
Initial arpeggiations and initial ascents	p. 63
Motion from and to an inner voice	p. 65
Interruptions and neighbor notes	p. 68
Obligatory register	p. 72
Register transfer and coupling	p. 74
Mixture	p. 77
Some further prolongations of the Bassbrechung	p. 78
Substitution and cover tones	p. 80
Getting started on an analysis	p. 85
A four-stage method	p. 87
An introduction to the analytical process	p. 87
Stages one and two	p. 91
Harmonic analysis	p. 94
Stage three (middleground analysis)	p. 95
Stage four (background analysis)	p. 100
A final worked example	p. 104
Presenting a Schenkerian analysis	p. 108
Foreground graphs	p. 109
Middleground graphs	p. 115
Middleground summaries	p. 120
Schenkerian notation in practice	p. 122
Analysis in practice	p. 127
Schenkerian analysis and form	p. 129
Allegretto from Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 14, No. 1	p. 130
Chopin, Grande Valse Brilliante, Op. 18	p. 137
Haydn, Divertimento in C major, Hob. XVI, No. 10	p. 141
Playing with register	p. 154
Menuetto from Mozart's "Dissonance" Quartet	p. 156
Menuetto from Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1	p. 161
Parallelisms and dramatic structure	p. 166
Hidden repetition	p. 166
Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 14, No. 1	p. 170
Beethoven, String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95	p. 174
Beyond Schenker: The breakdown of tonal hierarchy	p. 180
Exercises	p. 191
Foreground analysis	p. 193
Middleground analysis	p. 199
Longer extracts	p. 203
Problematic extracts	p. 221
Schenker's analyses	p. 231
Glossary	p. 239
Notes	p. 248
Select bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 253
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