ABSTRACT

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 method to tackling this often difficult system of analysis.

  • Part I is an introduction to Schenkerian analysis, outlining the concepts that are involved in analysis
  • Part II outlines a unique and detailed working method to help students to get started on the process of analysis
  • Part III puts some of these ideas into practice by exploring the basics of a Schenkerian approach to form, register, motives and dramatic structure
  • Part IV provides a series of exercises from the simple to the more sophisticated, along with hints and tips for their completion.

part |2 pages

Part I An overview of Schenkerian analysis Part I

chapter 2|40 pages

An overview of the basics

chapter 3|35 pages

Larger-scale structures

part |2 pages

Part II Getting started on an analysis

chapter 4|21 pages

A four-stage method

chapter 5|19 pages

Presenting a Schenkerian analysis

part |2 pages

Part III Analysis in practice

chapter 6|25 pages

Schenkerian analysis and form

chapter 7|12 pages

Playing with register

chapter 8|14 pages

Parallelisms and dramatic structure