Structural Hearing

Structural Hearing 

Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music by Felix Salzer

Dover Publications | English | 1962 | ISBN: 0486222756, 978-0486222752  | 667 pages |

Composed by a student of the late Heinrich Schenker, this exceptional work is the most exhaustive piece in English of Schenker's work. Creating and extending the Schenker way to deal with incorporate advanced music, it investigates the marvel of tonal association in Western music by method for a definite examination and discourse of more than 500 musical cases going in time from the Middle Ages to such moderns as Bartok,
Hindemith, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky.
Heinrich Schenker's extraordinary commitment was the revelation of basic standards of tonal association, coherence, and lucidness. In principle he was the first to characterize these natural powers of the musical dialect, especially the tonal capacities and connections which shape both the generative and iron strengths of extraordinary music.

Dr. Salzer, in growing and planning again huge numbers of Schenker's thoughts, has set out upon a deliberate methodology. Utilizing the idea of harmony capacities as a premise, he separates strongly between harmony language structure (or marking) and noteworthiness, demonstrating that capacity as opposed to the conventional mark is truly huge. Further qualifications between harmonies of structure and harmonies of prolongation, consonant and contrapuntal uses, and the idea of musical course give successful instruments to the examination of music.

This set, which is a standard work utilized as a part of exceedingly essential music schools, begins with fundamental definitions and basic cases, and trains the peruser not just to hear progressions of tones, melodic lines, and movements of harmonies, additionally to comprehend their auxiliary lucidness and essentialness. It is important for performers and for all who are truly intrigued by music, whether as an understudy, commentator, entertainer, or conductor.

"Since its publication in 1952 . . . has been the foundation on which all teaching in music theory has been based at this College." — Leopold Mannes, President, The Mannes College of Music. "Never likely to be improved upon for soundness and comprehensiveness." — Ernest Newman, The Times. "A thoughtful and provocative contribution to the fields of music theory, aesthetics, and criticism, and performance. Dr. Salzer is to be congratulated on having helped us take a long step out of the Dark Ages." — Norman Lloyd, Juilliard School of Music, in Notes.