The Masterwork in Music: Volume 1, 1925

by Heinrich Schenker

Volume I of this work is translated here by a team of distinguished theorists. It includes analyses of keyboard works by Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin, Beethoven and Handel and solo violin music by Bach, as well as more general essays on aspects of Schenkerian theory. Volume 2 (1926) and Volume 3 (1930) were published in 1995/6. Long awaited in English translation, this edition will also be invaluable to scholars for the editorial annotations and elucidations provided by Dr Drabkin and his translators.

147 pages, Hardcover

First published January 27, 1995

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.