The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory

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Carl Schachter (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York) Joseph N. Straus (Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

The Art of Tonal Analysis

Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory

Carl Schachter (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York), Joseph N. Straus (Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

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Oxford University Press Inc
11 February 2016

Theory of music & musicology; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)

Carl Schachter is the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. His articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose. Yet, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt in the classroom. At the Mannes College of Music, the Juilliard School of Music, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at special pedagogical events around the world, he has taught generations of musical performers, composers, historians, and theorists over the course of his long career. In Fall 2012, Schachter taught a doctoral seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center in which he talked about the music and the musical issues that have concerned him most deeply; the course was in essence a summation of his extensive and renowned teaching. In The Art of Tonal Analysis, winner of the Society for Music Theory's 2017 Citation of Special Merit, music theorist Joseph Straus presents edited transcripts of those lectures. Accompanied by abundant music examples, including analytical examples transcribed from the classroom blackboard, Straus's own visualizations of material that Schachter presented aurally at the piano, and Schachter's own extended Schenkerian graphs and sketches, this book offers a vivid account of Schachter's masterful pedagogy and his deep insight into the central works of the tonal canon. In making the lectures of one of the world's most extraordinary musicians and musical thinkers available to a wide audience, The Art of Tonal Analysis is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of music.

By: Carl Schachter (Professor Emeritus Professor Emeritus Queens College and Graduate Center City University of New York)
Edited by: Joseph N. Straus (Distinguished Professor Distinguished Professor The Graduate Center City University of New York)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 180mm, Width: 262mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780190227395
ISBN 10: 0190227397
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 11 February 2016
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carl Schachter is an extraordinary musician and musical thinker, and the world's leading practitioner of Schenkerian theory and analysis. He has written extensively on the masterworks of the tonal common practice and on the analytical delights and challenges that they present. Although his articles and books have been broadly influential, and are seen by many as models of musical insight and lucid prose, perhaps his greatest impact has been felt in the classroom. At the Mannes College of Music, the Juilliard School of Music, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at special pedagogical events around the world, he has taught generations of musical performers, composers, historians, and theorists. Joseph N. Straus has published widely on topics in modernist music and post-tonal music theory. He is a former President of the Society for Music Theory.

Reviews for The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory

We are fortunate to have the opportunity to learn the art of tonal analysis from Carl Schachter: his book is essential reading for the next generation of musicians who care about common-practice tonal music, musical analysis, and pedagogy. --William M. Marvin, Music Theory Spectrum With Carl Schachter's The Art of Tonal Analysis, the world's foremost Schenkerian scholar and superb musician gives us the opportunity to step into his classroom and experience the unabashedly exuberant, persuasive style for which he is renowned and beloved as a teacher. Schachter's lectures, marvelously transcribed and edited by Joseph N. Straus, offer moments of delight, surprise, and brilliant insight on every page. --Janet Schmalfeldt, Professor Emerita of Music, Tufts University Since the late 1970s it has been my extraordinary good fortune to attend numerous courses taught by Carl Schachter. In each class session he offered breathtakingly profound insights into the wonders of musical masterpieces, and I am happy to see that The Art of Tonal Analysis will now allow everyone to share in the excitement of these lessons. --L. Poundie Burstein, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY/ Mannes College