Becoming Heinrich Schenker

Robert P. Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale University, Massachusetts. Active as both a theorist and historian, his book Twentieth-Century Music (1991) has been a standard text for over twenty years. He has published numerous other books as editor, including Alban Berg: Historical and Analytical Perspectives (1991), Modern Times (1993) and Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone (2009). He has served as Chair of the Music Departments at both the University of Chicago and Yale University, and was a recipient of grants from the German Government and the National Endowment for the Humanities, plus a Burlington Northern Achievement Award for distinction in graduate teaching in Humanities at the University of Chicago. He has been a member of numerous advisory, executive, and editorial boards, and was Chair of the Visiting Committee of the Music Department at Harvard University and twice a faculty member of the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory.

'A major contribution to the scholarly literature on one of the most important (and controversial) music theorists of the twentieth century, Becoming Heinrich Schenker traces the emergence and development of Schenker's mature theory through each of his published works. The book provides commentary on existing Schenker literature and on translations of and scholarship on his work, including extensions of the analytical techniques … [It] will be an important companion resource for anyone studying Schenkerian analysis … Highly recommended …' C. A. Traupman-Carr, Choice

• Preface; Part I. Theory: 1. Introduction; 2. Schenker's final theory; Part II. Development: 3. 'Der Geist der musikalischen Technik'; 4. Die Harmonielehre; 5. Kontrapunkt I and II; 6. The monographs; 7. Der Tonwille and Das Meisterwerk in der Musik; 8. Der Freie Satz; Part III. Reconsideration: 9. Critical assessment: ideology; 10. Critical assessment: theory; 11. Conclusion; Appendix: German originals.