Unfoldings: Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis

Carl Schachter is by common consent one of the worlds preeminent music theorists. He is surely the foremost practitioner of the Schenkerian approach to the music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which focuses on the linear organization of music and frequently dominates discussions of the standard repertoire in university courses and professional journals. Schachters articles have thus appeared in a variety of periodicals including some that are obscure or hard to obtain. This volume gathers some of his finest essays including those on rhythm in tonal music Schenkerian theory and text setting as well as a pair of analytical monographs on Bachs Fugue in B-flat major from Volume 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier and Chopins Fantasy Op. 49.