1st Edition

SchenkerGUIDE A Brief Handbook and Website for Schenkerian Analysis

By Thomas Pankhurst Copyright 2008
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Part 1: An Overview of Schenkerian Analysis  1. An Introduction to the Concepts of Schenkerian Analysis  2. An Overview of the Basics  3. Larger Scale Structures  Part 2: Getting Started on an Analysis  4. A Four-stage Method  5. Presenting a Schenkerian Analysis  Part 3: The Schenkerian Approach to Form, Register, Motives and Dramatic Structure  6. Schenkerian Analysis and Form  7. Playing with Register  8. Parallelisms and Dramatic Structure  9. Beyond Schenker: the Breakdown of Tonal Hierarchy  Part 4: Exercises

Biography

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.