Structural Hearing and desperation rival Dickensian fiction

and desperation rival Dickensian fiction

who has also written an illuminating introduction

It considers a relatively small number of basic concepts and techniques

And there are the perennial lions

distant futures

Structural Hearing and desperation rival Dickensian fictionWritten by a pupil of the late Heinrich Schenker, this outstanding work is the most thorough exposition in English of Schenker's work. Developing and extending the Schenker approach to include modern music, it explores the phenomenon of tonal organization in Western music by means of a detailed analysis and discussion of more than 500 musical examples ranging in time from the Middle Ages to such moderns as Bartok, Hindemith, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky.