Schenker: The Masterwork in Music: Volume 3, 1930: A Yearbook

by Heinrich Schenker

The Masterwork in Music comprises the main writings from the mid-1920s to 1930 of the eminent Austrian theorist and music-philosopher, Heinrich Schenker (1868SH1935); these range from detailed analyses of individual works to discussions of music theory in a historical/cultural context to general thoughts about music, art and culture. The third and final volume of Masterwork embraces all three types of essay, but is in reality dominated by the most detailed and, for many, the most celebrated of all of Schenker's studies of single the analysis of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. All four movements are discussed and graphed in painstaking detail.

Hardcover

Published April 30, 1997

About the author

Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was an Austrian music theorist, composer, pianist, and editor whose reductive analytical method, now termed "Schenkerian analysis", elucidates the hierarchical structure of tonal music by tracing elaborations from surface details back to a fundamental Ursatz derived from linear progressions and triadic arpeggiations.