Description

Carl Schachter is the pre-eminent 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 which now dominates discussions of the standard repertoire in university courses and in professional journals. 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.

CONTENTS

Introduction: A Dialogue between Author and Editor
I: Rhythm and Linear Analysis
1 A Preliminary Study
2 Durational Reduction
3 Aspects of Meter
II: Schenkerian Theory
4 Either/Or
5 Analysis by Key
6 The Triad as Place and Action
7 A Commentary on Schenker’s Free Composition
III: Words and Music
8 Motive and Text in Four Schubert Songs
9 The Adventures of an F-sharp
IV: Analytical Monographs
10 Bach’s Fugue in B-flat Major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, No. 21
11 Chopin’s Fantasy, Op. 49: The Two-Key Scheme
Carl Schachter: List of Publications