Structural Hearing Tonal Coherence in Music - Two Volumes Bound as One

Since the publication of the First Edition many have pointed out certain necessary changes and emendation in both volumes. The new edition is the result. This book is based on Heinrich Schenker's revolutionary conceptions of tonality and music coherence. The first volume is divided into 3 parts. The first part presents Schenker's conceptions, their purpose and the possibilities which they suggest. The questions raised by the first part and many which it leaves untouched, are answered in the second part - 'The pedagogic and systematic approach to structural hearing'. The 3rd part deals with the implications and consequences of structural hearing as they concern problems of musical understanding, interpretation and musicology. The second volume contains analyses of compositions constituting a large cross-section of musical literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Keyboard exercises have been found to be helpful as well; they also will be found in the second volume.