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Schenker: The Masterwork in Music: Volume 2, 1926 - Schenker, Heinrich, and Drabkin, William (Editor), and Rothgeb, John (Translated by)
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Heinrich Schenker is regarded as one of the leading music theorists of the twentieth century. The Masterwork in Music was written in three volumes between 1925 and 1930 and is distinguished from earlier writings by its depth of vision, demonstrated here both graphically and verbally. Although the concept of structural hierarchy is already present in Der Tonwille (1921-4), the idea of a network of layers becomes particularly prominent in Das Meisterwerk. This volume contains a major essay on Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G ...

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Schenker: The Masterwork in Music: Volume 2, 1926 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521455428

Hardcover