VH_612 Heinrich Schenker

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Wed 15:00–16:35 J21
Prerequisites
Introduction to Schenker's analysis;; contains excerpts from Harmonielehre (1906) and Der freie Satz (1935). Schenker's theories is explained in the context of Sechter and Riemann, and discusses he polemic of Federhofer and Dahlhaus regarding their reactions to voice-leading analysis.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are the following: making students aware of schenkerian analysis At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and explain the basics of Schenkerian analysis through reading his key works.
Syllabus
  • Heinrich Schenker: life and work
  • Key works: Harmonielehre (1906); Kontrapunkt (1910 and 1922); Der freie Satz (1935) etc.
  • Reception: Schenkerian analysis in viennese music teaching institutions
  • Schenker, Schoenberg, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Freud
  • Schenkerians in America: Hans Weisse, Felix Salzer, Oswald Jonas, Ernst Oster, Viktor Zuckerkandl
  • Heinrich Schenker and the art of performance
  • Knowledge and use of the term: diminution; composing-out; inner form - outer form; tonality; background; middleground; foreground; Urlinie; fundamental structure
Literature
  • COOK, Nicholas. The Schenker project : culture, race and music theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, xi, 355. ISBN 9780195170566. info
  • SPURNÝ, Lubomír. Heinrich Schenker: Der Antiheld der Moderne? Über einige Formen der Angst in der Musik. (Heinrich Schenker: Anti-Hero of Modernism? On Several Types of Fear in Music). In Horror novitatis. Mezinárodní hudebně vědné kolokvium 2002. Praha: Praha : KLP - Koniasch Latin Press, 2004, p. 88-93. ISBN 80-86791-19-X. info
  • SPURNÝ, Lubomír. Heinrich Schenker : dávný neznámý. První vydání. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého - vydavatelství, 2000, 186 stran. ISBN 8024400553. info
  • FORTE, Allen and Steven E. GILBERT. Introduction to Schenkerian analysis. Edited by Heinrich Schenker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982, 397 s. ISBN 0393951928. info
  • FEDERHOFER, Hellmut. Akkord und Stimmführung in den musiktheoretischen Systemen von Hugo Riemann, Ernst Kurth und Heinrich Schenker. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981, 192 s. ISBN 3700103859. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written test; oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005.
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