Volume 16, Number 11 · June 17, 1971
Art Has Its Reasons
By Charles Rosen
Five Graphic Music Analyses
by Heinrich Schenker, with a new Introduction and Glossary by Felix Salzer
Dover, 61 pp., $2.50
La Poétique, la Mémoire
Change No. 6, 1970, Editions du Seuil (Paris)
Shakespeare's Verbal Art in Th'Expence of Spirit
by Roman Jakobson, by Lawrence G. Jones
Mouton (The Hague), Humanities Press, 32 pp., $3.25
Heinrich Schenker claimed that if you did not hear music according to his system, you could not be said to hear it at all. Moreover, his system was not elaborated with much consideration for more traditional ways of looking at, or listening to, music. He swept away as trivial and insignificant not only such notions as 'modulation' and 'sequence' but even 'melody,' the common man's way of recognizing and appreciating music.[1] Schenker's contempt for the layman is exceeded only by his contempt for all previous theoretical work before his own except that of Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
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