Questioning Schenkerism / Bengt Edlund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edlund, Bengt, author.

Series:

Frau Minne und die Liebenden

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Schenkerian analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (499 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] ; Bern, [Switzerland] : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the past fifty years Schenkerian theory has been adopted as the main method for analysing tonal music. This book questions the value of Schenker's «tonal analysis» for musical description and interpretation, and discusses its relations to «generative» theory and «implicational» analysis - taking into account its links with linguistic syntax and the perception of tonal closure. It is observed how auxiliary theoretical concepts transform the music so as to pave the way for preordained tonal structures. Alternative readings of the music examples are provided.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface ""; ""Chapter 1 Schenkerian theory and better comparison: An out-of-the-way perspective""; ""Introduction ""; ""Schubert's Das Wandern and the question of consecutive fifths""; ""What went wrong with this "good comparison"?""; ""A further Schenkerian reading of Das Wandern ""; ""A free reduction of a free composition ""; ""The initial theme of Beethoven's Op. 90: Schenker's background""

""Salzer's reduction """"Beethoven's theme: some preliminary observations ""; ""An alternative reduction to be discarded ""; ""Final attempts at a reduction ""; ""Beethoven's theme: some conclusions ""; ""Schenker and Schumann's Aus meinen Thränen sprießen ""

""A critical scrutiny of Schenker's reduction """"Schenker's analysis of the middle section: the foreground ""; ""Schenker's analysis of the middle section: the middleground ""; ""Harmonic observations ""; ""Conclusions and a bottom/up attempt at reduction ""

""Bringing in the context of the song """"General conclusions ""; ""Chapter 2 Disciplining reduction and tonalizing interpretation""; ""Introduction ""; ""Reduction and interpretation ""; ""Disciplining reduction ""; ""Schenker's analysis: the first phrase of the antecedent ""; ""The second phrase of the antecedent ""

""The first part of the middle section """"The second part of the middle section ""; ""The entire theme ""; ""von Cube's reduction ""; ""Correcting the disciple ""; ""von Cube's defence ""; ""Enforcing discipline ""; ""Maintaining discipline: Beach teaching teachers ""

""The A-sections according to Beach ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783653966800

3653966809

9783653055924

365305592X