Unfoldings Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis

by Schachter, Carl; Straus, Joseph N.

• ISBN13: 9780195125900
• ISBN10: 0195125908
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Carl Schachter is, by common consent, one of the world's preeminent music theorists. He is surely the foremost practitioner of the Schenkerian approach to the music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which focuses on the linear organization of music and frequently dominates discussions of the standard repertoire in university courses and professional journals. Schachter's articles have thus appeared in a variety of periodicals, 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. His books include Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition (1990) and The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger (1995).

Table of Contents

A Dialogue between Author and Editor	p. 3
Rhythm and Linear Analysis
A Preliminary Study	p. 17
Durational Reduction	p. 54
Aspects of Meter	p. 79
Schenkerian Theory
Either/Or	p. 121
Analysis by Key: Another Look at Modulation	p. 134
The Triad as Place and Action	p. 161
A Commentary on Schenker's Free Composition	p. 184
Words and Music
Motive and Text in Four Schubert Songs	p. 209
The Adventures of an F#: Tonal Narration and Exhortation in Donna Anna's First-Act Recitative and Aria	p. 221
Analytical Monographs
Bach's Fugue in Bb Major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, No. 21	p. 239
Chopin's Fantasy, Op. 49: The Two-Key Scheme	p. 260
Carl Schachter: List of Publications	p. 289
Index	p. 291
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