SchenkerGUIDE
A Brief Handbook and Web Site for Schenkerian Analysis
Price: $95.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-97397-7
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 24th April 2008
- Pages: 272
About the Book
SchenkerGUIDE is an accessible overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music. The book has emerged out of the widely used website, www.SchenkerGUIDE.com, which has been offering straightforward explanations of Schenkerian analysis to undergraduate students since 2001.
Divided into four parts, SchenkerGUIDE offers a step-by-step method to tackling this often difficult system of analysis.
- Part I is an introduction to Schenkerian analysis, outlining the concepts that involved in analysis.
- Part II outlines a unique and detailed working method to help students to get started on the process of analysis
- Part III puts some of these ideas into practice by exploring the basics of a Schenkerian approach to form, register, motives and dramatic structure.
- Part IV provides a series of exercises from the simple to the more sophisticated, along with hints and tips for their completion.
Table of Contents
Part I: An Overview of Schenkerian Analysis Chapter One – An Introduction to the Concepts of Schenkerian Analysis Chapter Two – An Overview of the basics Chapter Three – Larger scale structures Part II: Getting started on an analysis Chapter Four – A four-stage method Chapter Five - Presenting a Schenkerian analysis Part III: The Schenkerian Approach to Form, Register, Motives and Dramatic structure Chapter Six – Schenkerian analysis and form Chapter Seven – Playing with register Chapter Eight – Parallelisms and dramatic structure Chapter Nine - Beyond Schenker: the breakdown of tonal hierarchy Part IV: Exercises
About the Author(s)
Tom Pankhurst is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University. His research interests include the tonal music of the twentieth century and semiotic approaches to tonality.