Schenkerian analysis is a method of analyzing tonal music based on the theories of Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935). The goal is to demonstrate the organic...
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This is a glossary of Schenkerian analysis, a method of musical analysis of tonal music based on the theories of Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935). The method...
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meant to simplify the music for you. Schenkerian analysis Schenkerian analysis is a collection of music analysis that focuses on the production of the...
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Prolongation (category Schenkerian analysis)
It is a central principle in the music-analytic methodology of Schenkerian analysis, conceived by Austrian theorist Heinrich Schenker. The English term...
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"The case in which an immanent analysis is equally relevant to the poietic as to the esthesic." Schenkerian analysis, which, based on the sketches of...
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through twentieth centuries, Schenkerian theory, politics and music. He is the co-founder of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies. In 2020, he became controversial...
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Music theory (section Analysis)
Schenkerian analysis is a method of musical analysis of tonal music based on the theories of Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935). The goal of a Schenkerian...
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Strongest Overlapping can refer to: "Reaching over", term in Schenkerian theory, see Schenkerian analysis#Lines between voices, reaching over Intersection (disambiguation)...
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Structural level (redirect from Middleground (Schenkerian analysis))
In Schenkerian analysis, a structural level is a representation of a piece of music at a different level of abstraction, with levels typically including...
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developed by Eugene Narmour as an alternative to Schenkerian analysis centered less on music analysis and more on cognitive aspects of expectation. The...
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Semiotics (redirect from Semiotic analysis)
sculpture", but Agawu uses the distinction mainly in music, proposing Schenkerian analysis as a path to introversive semiosis and topic theory as an example...
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Felix Salzer (category Schenkerian analysis)
followers of Heinrich Schenker, and did much to refine and explain Schenkerian analysis after Schenker's death. He was born on June 13, 1904 in Vienna to...
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distance between them together define the scale they are in. In Schenkerian analysis, "scale degree" (or "scale step") translates Schenker's German Stufe...
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built on the lowered (flat) second (supertonic) scale degree. In Schenkerian analysis, it is known as a Phrygian II, since in minor scales the chord is...
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Harmony (Schenker) (category Schenkerian analysis)
Harmony (German: Harmonielehre, or "Theory of Harmony") is a book published in 1906 by Heinrich Schenker. It is the first installment of Schenker's three-volume...
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Fundamental structure (category Schenkerian analysis)
In Schenkerian analysis, the fundamental structure (German: Ursatz) describes the structure of a tonal work as it occurs at the most remote (or "background")...
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In Schenkerian analysis, the bass arpeggiation (German: Bassbrechung) is the bass pattern forming the deep background of tonal musical works. It consists...
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construct, including deep structure. According to Middleton (1990), Schenkerian analysis of music corresponds to the Chomskyan notion of deep structure, applying...
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contrary to common practice at the time. Joel Galand has performed a Schenkerian analysis of the rondo finale and noted features such as its novel use of ♭II...
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analysis now routinely teach it (to varying degrees)." Forte published analyses of the works of Webern and Berg and wrote about Schenkerian analysis and...
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Voice leading (category Schenkerian analysis)
melodies are layered on top of the chords." See Schenkerian analysis: voice leading. See Schenkerian analysis. See for instance Johann Philipp Kirnberger...
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Free Composition (category Schenkerian analysis)
Free Composition (Der freie Satz) is a treatise by Heinrich Schenker, and possibly Schenker's best known work. The third volume of New Musical Theories...
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Peter Westergaard's tonal theory (category Schenkerian analysis)
Peter Westergaard's tonal theory is the theory of tonal music developed by Peter Westergaard and outlined in Westergaard's 1975 book An Introduction to...
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of Schenkerian Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis, with a particular focus on Schenkerian analysis based...
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Scale-step (category Schenkerian analysis)
In Schenkerian theory, a scale-step (German: Stufe) is a triad (based on one of the diatonic scale degrees) that is perceived as an organizing force for...
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Unfolding (music) (category Schenkerian analysis)
In Schenkerian analysis, unfolding (German: Ausfaltung) or compound melody is the implication of more than one melody or line by a single voice through...
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Ernst Oster (category Schenkerian analysis)
pianist, musicologist, and music theorist. A specialist in the use of Schenkerian Analysis, he was the English translator of Heinrich Schenker's final work...
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Klang (music) (category Schenkerian analysis)
1903. Solie, Ruth A. (1980). "The Living Work: Organicism and Musical Analysis", 19th-Century Music 4/2, p. 151. The term Naturklang is also attributed...
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"The Fantaisie–Impromptu: A Tribute to Beethoven", in Aspects of Schenkerian Analysis, David Beach, ed. Yale University Press, 1983 ISBN 0-300-02800-8...
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