SchenkerGUIDE

Derived from the widely used website, www.SchenkerGUIDE.com, this book offers a step-by-step method to tackling Schenkerian analysis. It outlines the concepts involved in analysis, provides a detailed working method to help students to get started on the process of analysis, and explores the basics of a Schenkerian approach to form, register, motives and dramatic structure. It also provides a series of exercises with hints and tips for their completion.

Tom Pankhurst is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University. His research interests include the tonal music of the twentieth century and semiotic approaches to tonality.

Part 1: An Overview of Schenkerian Analysis 1. An Introduction to the Concepts of Schenkerian Analysis 2. An Overview of the Basics 3. Larger Scale Structures Part 2: Getting Started on an Analysis 4. A Four-stage Method 5. Presenting a Schenkerian Analysis Part 3: The Schenkerian Approach to Form, Register, Motives and Dramatic Structure 6. Schenkerian Analysis and Form 7. Playing with Register 8. Parallelisms and Dramatic Structure 9. Beyond Schenker: the Breakdown of Tonal Hierarchy Part 4: Exercises