TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bengt Edlund
PY  - 2015
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653055924
TI  - Questioning Schenkerism
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-05592-4
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049175
N2  - During the past fifty years Schenkerian theory has been adopted as the main method for analysing tonal music. This book questions the value of Schenker’s «tonal analysis» for musical description and interpretation, and discusses its relations to «generative» theory and «implicational» analysis – taking into account its links with linguistic syntax and the perception of tonal closure. It is observed how auxiliary theoretical concepts transform the music so as to pave the way for preordained tonal structures. Alternative readings of the music examples are provided.
KW  - Schenkerian theory, analysis of tonal music, tonal closure, musical interpretation
LA  - English
ER  -