The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory
Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt in the classroom. At the Mannes College of Music, the Juilliard School of Music, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at special pedagogical events around the world, he has taught generations of musical performers, composers, historians, and theorists over the course of his long career.
In Fall 2012, Schachter taught a doctoral seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center in which he talked about the music and the musical issues that have concerned him most deeply; the course was in essence a summation of his extensive and renowned teaching. In The Art of Tonal Analysis, music theorist Joseph Straus presents edited transcripts of those lectures. Accompanied by abundant music examples, including analytical examples transcribed from the classroom blackboard, Straus's own visualizations of material that Schachter presented aurally at the piano, and Schachter's own extended Schenkerian graphs and sketches, this book offers a vivid account of Schachter's masterful pedagogy and his deep insight into the central works of the tonal canon. In making the lectures of one of the world's most extraordinary musicians and musical thinkers available to a wide audience, The Art of Tonal Analysis is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of music.
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The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory
Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt in the classroom. At the Mannes College of Music, the Juilliard School of Music, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at special pedagogical events around the world, he has taught generations of musical performers, composers, historians, and theorists over the course of his long career.
In Fall 2012, Schachter taught a doctoral seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center in which he talked about the music and the musical issues that have concerned him most deeply; the course was in essence a summation of his extensive and renowned teaching. In The Art of Tonal Analysis, music theorist Joseph Straus presents edited transcripts of those lectures. Accompanied by abundant music examples, including analytical examples transcribed from the classroom blackboard, Straus's own visualizations of material that Schachter presented aurally at the piano, and Schachter's own extended Schenkerian graphs and sketches, this book offers a vivid account of Schachter's masterful pedagogy and his deep insight into the central works of the tonal canon. In making the lectures of one of the world's most extraordinary musicians and musical thinkers available to a wide audience, The Art of Tonal Analysis is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of music.
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The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory

The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory

The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory

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Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt in the classroom. At the Mannes College of Music, the Juilliard School of Music, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at special pedagogical events around the world, he has taught generations of musical performers, composers, historians, and theorists over the course of his long career.
In Fall 2012, Schachter taught a doctoral seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center in which he talked about the music and the musical issues that have concerned him most deeply; the course was in essence a summation of his extensive and renowned teaching. In The Art of Tonal Analysis, music theorist Joseph Straus presents edited transcripts of those lectures. Accompanied by abundant music examples, including analytical examples transcribed from the classroom blackboard, Straus's own visualizations of material that Schachter presented aurally at the piano, and Schachter's own extended Schenkerian graphs and sketches, this book offers a vivid account of Schachter's masterful pedagogy and his deep insight into the central works of the tonal canon. In making the lectures of one of the world's most extraordinary musicians and musical thinkers available to a wide audience, The Art of Tonal Analysis is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of music.

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ISBN-13: 9780190227418
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 12/02/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 58 MB
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About the Author

Carl Schachter is an extraordinary musician and musical thinker, and the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. He has written extensively on the masterworks of the tonal common practice and on the analytical delights and challenges that they present. Although his articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt in the classroom. At the Mannes College of Music, the Juilliard School of Music, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at special pedagogical events around the world, he has taught generations of musical performers, composers, historians, and theorists.

Joseph Straus has published widely on topics in modernist music and post-tonal music theory. He is a former President of the Society for Music Theory.

Table of Contents

Prelude Editor's Preface
Lesson 1 Linear Progressions and Neighbor Notes
Lesson 2 J.S. Bach, C-minor Menuet and Chopin, "Revolutionary" Etude
Lesson 3 Chopin, Two Preludes from Opus 28
Lesson 4 Schubert, Sonata in Bb major, Scherzo
Lesson 5 Handel, Suite No. 8 for Harpsichord, Courante
Lesson 6 J.S. Bach, Gavotte en Rondeaux from Violin Partita No. 3
Lesson 7 Mozart, Sonata for Violin and Piano, K. 481, Adagio
Lesson 8 Beethoven, String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 6, first movement
Lesson 9 Beethoven, String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 6, fourth movement
("La Malinconia")
Lesson 10 Rhythm, Hypermeter, and Phrase
Lesson 11 Haydn, Symphony No. 99, Adagio
Lesson 12 Beethoven, Piano Sonata, Op. 53 ("Waldstein")
Lesson 13 J.S. Bach, Fugue in F Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier,
Book 1
Postlude. Q and A

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