For questions pertaining to Schenkerian theory and analysis and its namesake, Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935).
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Why is Schenker so influential in US academia? Is it the same elsewhere?
Adam Neely's recent video on race and music theory focuses in part on the views of Schenker and the limits and biases of his system of analysis. It seems that Schenker has had a very strong influence on music pedagogy in the US (this is also an…
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What is the utility of Schenkerian analysis?
I have seen that Schenkerian analysis is a method of analyzing tonal music distinct from the usual one which employs roman numerals for the degrees, specifies the inversions, the functions, etc.
Which are Schenkerian analysis' advantages in…
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Understanding chord prolongations
Harmonically oriented neo-Schenkerian analysis and generative theories have in common the concept that a single chord can be "prolonged" over a given span of music, even if not every (or even any) note in the chord is playing at every moment during…
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Is there a compilation of The Well-Tempered Clavier voice-leading reductions?
Reading about Voice leading on the Wikipedia I came across an example of two reductions of a part of the Preludium in C major (BWV 846a) and was puzzled to know if there is a compilation of those reductions to the whole work.
According to the…
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schenkerian analysis archive
I would like to know if there is something like an Archive of Schenkerian Analysis of most pieces of music, or, at least, some kind of analysis. If you want to analyse an important piece of music, I think its almost sure it has been analysed before,…
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