Unfoldings Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis [Paperback]

Carl Schachter is, by common consent, one of the world's preeminent music theorists. He is surely the foremost practitioner of the Schenkerian approach to the music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which focuses on the linear organization of music and frequently dominates discussions of the standard repertoire in university courses and professional journals. Schachter's articles have thus appeared in a variety of periodicals, 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 theWell-Tempered Clavierand Chopin's Fantasy, Op. 49.

Introduction: A Dialogue between Author and Editor
I: Rhythm and Linear Analysis
1. A Preliminary Study
2. Durational Reduction
3. Aspects of Meter
II: Schenkerian Theory
4. Either/Or
5. Analysis by Key
6. The Triad as Place and Action
7. A Commentary on Schenker's Free Composition
III: Words and Music
8. Motive and Text in Four Schubert Songs
9. The Adventures of an F-sharp
IV: Analytical Monographs
10. Bach's Fugue in B-flat Major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, No. 21
11. Chopin's Fantasy, Op. 49: The Two-Key Scheme
Carl Schachter: List of Publications

The idea of feting Carl Schachter by publishing a collection of his essays in music theory and analysis is most laudable. Schachter is one of the heroes of musical analysis, and his collected writings explain Schenkerian analysis better than any of the existing textbooks in English on the subject. Joseph N. Straus, a scholar of high standing, is well placed to put this book together. --William Drabkin, University of Southampton

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