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The Analyst’s Voice

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SchachterCarl, The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory, ed. StrausJoseph (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). viii + 312 pp. £34.49

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2018

Nicholas Marston
Nicholas Marston*
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King’s College, Cambridge Email: njm45@cam.ac.uk
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , August 2019 , pp. 333 - 346
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References

1 Cone, Edward T., The Composer’s Voice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974)Google Scholar.

2 Beach, David and Mak, Su Yin, eds, Explorations in Schenkerian Analysis (New York: University of Rochester Press, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Richard Cohn, ‘Lewin, David’, Grove Music Online (accessed 30 July 2017).

4 David Lewin’s Morgengruß: Text, Context, Commentary, ed. David Bard-Schwarz and Richard Cohn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

5 David Lewin’s Morgengruß, 53; Explorations in Schenkerian Analysis, viii.

6 Schachter, Carl, The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory, ed. Joseph N. Straus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; citation at p. 99. Further page references are given in the main text.

7 Suurpää, Lauri, Death in Winterreise: Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert’s Song Cycle (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013)Google Scholar; Marston, Nicholas, ‘The Development of Schenker’s Concept of Interruption’, Music Analysis 32/3 (2013): 332–362 Google Scholar.

8 For example, Smith, Peter H., ‘Brahms and Schenker: A Mutual Response to Sonata Form’, Music Theory Spectrum 16/1 (1994): 77–103 CrossRefGoogle Scholar, not cited here; Mirka, Danuta, Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787–1791 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Robert P. Morgan has similarly identified linear motion and neighbour motion, along with arpeggiation, as fundamental transformational processes in Schenker’s mature thought, though recognizing that neighbour motion is ‘derived from, and less fundamental than, passing motion’. See Morgan, , Becoming Heinrich Schenker: Music Theory and Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 20 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 Schachter also has been honoured by a Festschrift. See Poundie Burstein, L. and Gagné, David, eds, Structure and Meaning in Tonal Music: Festschrift in Honor of Carl Schachter (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2006)Google Scholar.

11 See the celebrated graph of ‘Aus meinen Tränen spriessen’ from Dichterliebe: Heinrich Schenker, Free Composition (Der freie Satz), trans. and ed. Ernst Oster, 2 vols (New York: Longman, 1979), II, Figure 22b.

12 For a classic formulation see Kerman, Joseph, ‘Notes on Beethoven’s Codas’, in Beethoven Studies 3, ed. Alan Tyson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 141–159 Google Scholar.

13 A representative example from Schenker’s own work, though not a sonata-form movement, is the graph of the Menuetto from Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A, K331; see Schenker, Free Composition, II, Figure 35, 1.

14 On interruption and sonata form, see Schenker, Free Composition, I, p. 134. Schenker never published an $$\hat{8}$$ -line sonata-form analysis, but his unpublished reading of the first movement of Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata is pertinent. See Marston, Nicholas, Heinrich Schenker and Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), 42–47 Google Scholar.

15 Schachter, Carl, ‘Either/Or’, in Schenker Studies, ed. Hedi Siegel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 165–180 Google Scholar; reprinted in Schachter, Unfoldings: Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis, ed. Joseph N. Straus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 121–33.

16 Schenker, Free Composition, I, 141.

17 Schenker, Free Composition, I, 141–3.

18 Schenker in fact points to the finale of Op. 2 No. 3 as an example of ‘a transition from A1 to B1: Free Composition, I, 142 (§319). For James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy, this is one of several Beethoven piano sonata finales that offer ‘instructive examples of the standard Type 4 sonata, though usually – and most typically – with individual quirks that are of special interest’. See Hepokoski, and Darcy, , Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 407. Among the ‘quirks’ exhibited by the ‘otherwise paradigmatic’ Op. 2 No. 3 finale are ‘a dramatically “failed” exposition and non-resolving recapitulation’, and ‘witty, “wrong-key” references’.

19 Schenker, Free Composition, II, Figure 155, 3.

20 OC 38/398: ‘So war z. B. im Rondo D dur von Mozart der Weg durchaus nicht in Hinblick auf ein bestimtes Gesetz der Wiederholungen des Rondo-Themas ge[399]wählt vielmehr ging der Baß sein bestimten Kontrapunktwege, die nebenbei an dieser oder jener Stelle das Rondo-Thema treffen: [Graph follows]’.

21 Schenker, Free Composition, I, 36–40, and II, Figs 21–26; also I, 134, §312.

22 See van Beethoven, Ludwig, A Sketchbook from the Summer of 1800, ed. Richard Kramer (Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1996)Google Scholar; also Kramer, ‘Ambiguities in La Malinconia: What the Sketches Say’, in Beethoven Studies 3, 29–46. Schachter tackles the relationship of Beethoven’s sketches and final versions in ‘The Sketches for the Sonata for Piano and Violin, Op. 24’, Beethoven Forum 3 (1994): 107–25.

23 ‘Motive and Text in Four Schubert Songs’, in Aspects of Schenkerian Theory, ed. David Beach (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), 61–76; reprinted in Schachter, Unfoldings, 209–20; also ‘The Triad as Place and Action’, Music Theory Spectrum 17/2 (1995): 149–69; reprinted in Unfoldings, 161–83.

24 Rushton, Julian, ‘Guest Editorial’, Music Analysis 3/1 (1984): 6 Google Scholar.

25 Rushton, Julian, The Musical Language of Berlioz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)Google Scholar.

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27 I, on the contrary, recall a previously sceptical graduate student composer telling me how a compositional blockage had been cleared for him by thinking ‘Schenkerianly’.

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30 Schenker, Free Composition, I, xxi.