This article is about Heinrich Schenker. For the method of analysis based on his theories, see Schenkerian analysis.
Schenker in 1912 by Hermann Clemens Kosel [de]
Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was a Galician-born Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis.[1] His approach, now termed Schenkerian analysis, was most fully explained in a three-volume series, Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien (New Musical Theories and Phantasies), which included Harmony (1906), Counterpoint (1910; 1922), and Free Composition (1935).
Born in Wiśniowczyk, Austrian Galicia, he studied law at University of Vienna and music at what is now the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna where his teachers included Franz Krenn, Ernst Ludwig, Anton Bruckner, and Johann Nepomuk Fuchs. Despite his law degree, he focused primarily on a musical career following graduation, finding minimal success as a composer, conductor, and accompanist. After 1900 Schenker increasingly directed his efforts toward music theory, developing a systemic approach to analyze the underlying melodic and harmonic material of tonal music. His theories proposed the presence of fundamental structures (Ursatz) occurring in the background (Hintergrund) of compositions, which he illustrated with a variety of new specialized terms and notational methods.
Schenker's views on race have come under scrutiny and criticism in the 21st century.[2][3]
^Snarrenberg, Robert (2009). "Schenker, Heinrich". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.24804. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^Powell, Michael (14 February 2021). "Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech". New York Times. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
^Ross, Alex. "Black Scholars Confront White Supremacy in Classical Music". The New Yorker. No. 14 February 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
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vol. 2: p. 343 Schenker, Heinrich. Jahrbuch II, p. 24 cited in Jonas, Oswald (1982). Introduction to the Theory of HeinrichSchenker (1934: Das Wesen...
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method of musical analysis of tonal music based on the theories of HeinrichSchenker (1868–1935). The goal of a Schenkerian analysis is to interpret the...
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Introduction to the Theory of HeinrichSchenker (1934: Das Wesen des musikalischen Kunstwerks: Eine Einführung in Die Lehre HeinrichSchenkers), p. 24. Trans. John...
method of musical analysis of tonal music based on the theories of HeinrichSchenker (1868–1935). The method is discussed in the concerned article and...
1093/ml/gcl079. S2CID 193134321. Schenker, Heinrich. 2001. Counterpoint: A Translation of Kontrapunkt, by HeinrichSchenker: Volume II of New Musical Theories...
harmony. Other theory texts titled Harmonielehre include those by HeinrichSchenker (1906) and Hugo Riemann (1893). Adams has said that the piece was...
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