Schenker in America

 

Required Readings

 

Forte, Allen. “Schenker’s Conception of Musical Structure.” Journal of Music Theory3/1 (1959), 1–30.

 

Cook, Nicholas. “Music Theory and ‘Good Comparison’: A Viennese Perspective,” Journal of Music Theory 33/1 (1989), 117–41.

 

Straus, Joseph N. “The Problem of Prolongation in Post-Tonal Music,” Journal of Music Theory 31/1 (1987), 1–21.

 

Suggested Readings

 

Keiler, Allan and Schenker, "The Origins of Schenker's Thought: How Man Is Musical," Journal of Music Theory 33/2 (1989), 273–98.

 

Drabkin, William. “Heinrich Schenker.” In The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, edited by Thomas Christensen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 812–43.

 

Schachter, Carl, “Elephants, Crocodiles, and Beethoven: Schenker's Politics and the Pedagogy of Schenkerian Analysis,” Theory abd Practice 26 (2001), 1–20.

 

Cook, Nicholas. "Schenker's Theory of Music as Ethics," The Journal of Musicology 7/4 (1989), 415–39.

 

Parkhurst, Bryan J. "Making a Virtue of Necessity; Schenker and Kantian Teleology," Journal of Music Theory 61/1 (2017), 59–109.

 

Rothstein, William. "The Americanization of Heinrich Schenker." In Schenker Studies, dited by Hedi Siegel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 193–203.

 

Salzer, Felix. Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music. New York: Charles Boni; rep. Dover, 1952.

 

Additional Resources

 

Schenker Documents Online