Unfoldings Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis

by Schachter, Carl; Straus, Joseph N.

• ISBN13: 9780195120134
• ISBN10: 0195120132
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Carl Schachter is, by common consent, one of the three or four most important music theorists currently at work in North America. He is the preeminent practitioner in the world of the Schenkerian approach to the music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which focuses on the linear organization of music and now dominates discussions of the standard repertoire in university courses and in professional journals. His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, including some that are obscure or hard to obtain. This volume gathers some of his finest essays, including those on rhythm in tonal music, Schenkerian theory, and text setting, as well as a pair of analytical monographs, on Bach's Fugue in B-flat major from Volume 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier and Chopin's Fantasy, Op. 49.

Author Biography

One of the preeminent figures in the world of music theory, Carl Schachter is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Music at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also on the faculty at the Mannes College of Music Joseph N. Straus is Professor of Music at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and former President of the Society for Music Theory

Table of Contents

A Dialogue between Author and Editor	3	(14)
PART I RHYTHM AND LINEAR ANALYSIS	17	(104)
ONE A Preliminary Study	17	(37)
TWO Durational Reduction	54	(25)
THREE Aspects of Meter	79	(42)
PART II SCHENKERIAN THEORY	121	(88)
FOUR Either/Or	121	(13)
FIVE Analysis by Key: Another Look at Modulation	134	(27)
SIX The Triad as Place and Action	161	(23)
SEVEN A Commentary on Schenker's Free Composition	184	(25)
PART III WORDS AND MUSIC	209	(30)
EIGHT Motive and Text in Four Schubert Songs	209	(12)
NINE The Adventures of an F#: Tonal Narration and Exhortation in Donna Anna's First-Act Recitative and Aria	221	(18)
PART IV ANALYTICAL MONOGRAPHS	239	(50)
TEN Bach's Fugue in Bb Major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, No. 21	239	(21)
ELEVEN Chopin's Fantasy, Op. 49: The Two-Key Scheme	260	(29)
Carl Schachter: List of Publications	289	(2)
Index	291