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Alban Berg: Historical and Analytical Perspectives (1991), Modern Times (1993) and Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone (2009).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.

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.