Heinrich Schenker: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies) [Hardcover]

Benjamin Ayotte (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 3, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0415940710 | ISBN-13: 978-0415940719 | Edition: annotated edition

"My concepts present, for the first time, a genuine theory of tonal language"-he was not overly humble but we might expect as much of the most important theorist of tonal music to write in the last century. Schenker's eloquence teaches us about what a good theory is, how art differs from science, and of course about the music itself.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; annotated edition edition (October 3, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415940710
• ISBN-13: 978-0415940719
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,367,425 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Ayotte is currently an independent researcher in music theory and musicology. He is also the proprietor of Ayotte Custom Musical Engravings LLC (http://www.virtualconservatory.com/Ayotte_Index.html), Last year he was a full-time lecturer at the University of North Carolina, where he taught in the four-semester basic musicianship sequence (both written and aural theory) as well as twentieth-century ananlysis and sixteenth-century counterpoint. Prior to his appointment at UNCG, Ayotte taught graduate review courses in written and aural theory at Michigan State University. He has published articles and reviews in Nineteenth Century Music Review, MLA Notes, Artes Fontis Musicae, and Acta Musicologica. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies and has served as an outside reader for the Journal of Music Theory and the Journal of the Bach-Riemenschneider Institute. As well, he served as an editorial assistant for Gordon Sly's edited collection "Keys to the Drama: Nine Perspectives on Sonata Form" for which he engraved Edward Laufer's Chopin sketches for Chapter Seven. His dissertation (MSU, 2008) examines Heinrich Schenker's varied and creative use of the auxiliary cadence technique to reflect the poetic content of his own Lieder.