Author : Department of Music Queens College and Graduate School Carl Schachter Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, City University of New York
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019802908X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Book Synopsis Unfoldings : Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis by : Department of Music Queens College and Graduate School Carl Schachter Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, City University of New York
Download or read book Unfoldings : Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis written by Department of Music Queens College and Graduate School Carl Schachter Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, City University of New York and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998-12-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.