SchenkerGUIDE A Brief Handbook and Website for Schenkerian Analysis [Paperback]

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

Part 1: An Overview of Schenkerian Analysis  1. An Introduction to the Concepts of Schenkerian Analysis  2. An Overview of the Basics  3. Larger Scale Structures  Part 2: Getting Started on an Analysis  4. A Four-stage Method  5. Presenting a Schenkerian Analysis  Part 3: The Schenkerian Approach to Form, Register, Motives and Dramatic Structure  6. Schenkerian Analysis and Form  7. Playing with Register  8. Parallelisms and Dramatic Structure  9. Beyond Schenker: the Breakdown of Tonal Hierarchy  Part 4: Exercises

Tom Pankhurst is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University. His research inlw