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Der Tonwille: Pamphlets in Witness of the Immutable Laws of Music, offered to a New Generation of Youth by Heinrich Schenker. Volume 1: Issues 1-5 ... of Music, Volume I: Issues 1-5
Author(s): Heinrich Schenker (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date: 11 Mar. 2004
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195122372
- ISBN-13: 9780195122374
Book Description
The groundbreaking analytical techniques of Heinrich Schenker have had a powerful impact on the English-speaking musical world, and their importance, a century after he embarked on his major projects, is greater than ever. A central work in the Schenkerian canon, Der Tonwille, introduced the use of voice-leading graphs that remains a critical tool for many music theorists today. This volume, the first of a two-volume English translation of Schenker's complete original text, makes these important contributions available to English readers for the first time.
In the first five "issues" that make up Der Tonwille, Schenker analyzes piano sonatas by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, as well as shorter works including preludes by Bach and various classical keyboard pieces. The volume also includes the first two installments of a large-scale study of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which, in common with many of the other essays offered here, is comprised of a detailed analysis of the score, a commentary on the sketches and autograph and related textual problems, remarks on performance, and a critique of the literature on the symphony. Most significantly, the essays in this volume are the first that consistently embrace the concept of "Urlinie" by coordinating an explanatory text with a "graph of the Urlinie" for each work discussed. It also contains the most extensive expression of Schenker's outspoken philosophical, political, and artistic beliefs, providing an important cultural perspective from which to view his theoretical work.
Under the leadership of William Drabkin, a team of well-regarded musicologists has produced this skilled and lucid translation of Schenker's influential writings, an essential resource for English-reading musicologists and music theorists.
In the first five "issues" that make up Der Tonwille, Schenker analyzes piano sonatas by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, as well as shorter works including preludes by Bach and various classical keyboard pieces. The volume also includes the first two installments of a large-scale study of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which, in common with many of the other essays offered here, is comprised of a detailed analysis of the score, a commentary on the sketches and autograph and related textual problems, remarks on performance, and a critique of the literature on the symphony. Most significantly, the essays in this volume are the first that consistently embrace the concept of "Urlinie" by coordinating an explanatory text with a "graph of the Urlinie" for each work discussed. It also contains the most extensive expression of Schenker's outspoken philosophical, political, and artistic beliefs, providing an important cultural perspective from which to view his theoretical work.
Under the leadership of William Drabkin, a team of well-regarded musicologists has produced this skilled and lucid translation of Schenker's influential writings, an essential resource for English-reading musicologists and music theorists.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"The translation of Der Tonwille offers the English-speaking community a golden opportunity to probe its past.... The appearance of the translation of Der Tonwille provides an excellent impetus for seeking out the riches in Schenker's earlier writings, both for what they promise to offer to the history of theory and also for what they offer to Schenkerian practice."--Suzannah Clark, Journal of the Royal Music Association
Review
"The translation of Der Tonwille offers the English-speaking community a golden opportunity to probe its past.... The appearance of the translation of Der Tonwille provides an excellent impetus for seeking out the riches in Schenker's earlier writings, both for what they promise to offer to the history of theory and also for what they offer to Schenkerian practice."--Suzannah Clark, Journal of the Royal Music Association
