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. His articles have appeared in a variety of journals, including some that are obscure or hard to obtain. 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.
Author(s): Carl Schachter, Joseph N. Straus
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 303
Contents......Page 8
A Dialogue between Author and Editor......Page 12
PART I: RHYTHM AND LINEAR ANALYSIS......Page 24
ONE: A Preliminary Study......Page 26
TWO: Durational Reduction......Page 63
THREE: Aspects of Meter......Page 88
PART II: SCHENKERIAN THEORY......Page 128
FOUR: Either/Or......Page 130
FIVE: Analysis by Key: Another Look at Modulation......Page 143
SIX: The Triad as Place and Action......Page 170
SEVEN: A Commentary on Schenker's: Free Composition......Page 193
PART III: WORDS AND MUSIC......Page 216
EIGHT: Motive and Text in Four Schubert Songs......Page 218
NINE: The Adventures of an F#: Tonal Narration and Exhortation in Donna Anna's First-Act Recitative and Aria......Page 230
PART IV: ANALYTICAL MONOGRAPHS......Page 246
TEN: Bach's Fugue in B[omitted] Major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, No. 21......Page 248
ELEVEN: Chopin's Fantasy, Op.49: The Two-Key Scheme......Page 269
Carl Schachter: List of Publications......Page 298
B......Page 300
M......Page 301
S......Page 302
Z......Page 303
