Unfoldings: Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis

Carl Schachter is, by common consent, one of the three or four most important music theorists currently at work in North America. He is the preeminent practitioner in the world of the Schenkerian approach to the music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which focuses on the Linear organization of music and now dominates discussions of the standard repertoire in university courses and in professional journals. This volume gathers some of his finest essays, including those on rhythm in tonal music, Schenkerian theory, and text setting.