Unfoldings: Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis

by Carl Schachter

Book Overview

Carl Schachter is, by common consent, one of the three or four most important music theorists currently at work in North America. He is the preeminent 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 now dominates discussions of the standard repertoire in university courses and in professional journals. This volume gathers some of his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195125908
• ISBN13: 9780195125900
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"