Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony

The first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro—Germanic music theory ca. 1900.


What makes the compositions of Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms stand out as great works of art? Heinrich Schenker (1868—1935) set out to answer this question in a series of treatises, beginning with a strikingly original work with the deceptive...