Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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0:00 Introduction
1:46 I: What is Schenkerian Analysis?
7:58 II: Some Important Terms
17:16 III: Notation
21:57 IV: Limitations
28:25 V: The Elephant in the Room
34:21 VI: Schenker in America
37:49 VII: Schenker, Revisited

📚 Sources/further reading:
“Der freie Satz (Free Composition)” by Heinrich Schenker, trans. & ed. by Ernst Oster (Longman, 1979)
“Der Tonwille: Pamphlets in Witness of the Immutable Laws of Music” by Heinrich Schenker, ed. William Drabkin, trans. Ian Bent, William Drabkin, Joseph Dubiel, Timothy Jackson, Joseph Lubben, William Renwick, and Robert Snarrenberg (Oxford, 2004/5)
“Introduction to the Theory of Heinrich Schenker” by Oswald Jonas, trans. & ed. John Rothgeb (Longman, 1982)
“Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach,” 3rd Ed., by Allen Cadwallader and David Gagné (Oxford, 2011)
“A Guide to Schenkerian Analysis” by David Neumeyer and Susan Tepping (Prentice Hall, 1992)
“Aspects of Schenkerian Theory,” ed. David Beach (Yale, 1983)
“On Milton Babbitt, Schenkerian” from “Thinking In and About Music: Analytical Reflections on Milton Babbitt's Music and Thought” by Zachary Bernstein (Oxford, 2021): doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190949235.003.0001
“Silence and Slow Time” by Martin Boykan (Scarecrow Press, 2004)
“Questioning Schenkerism” by Bengt Edlund (Peter Lang GmbH, 2015)
“Explorations in Schenkerian Analysis,” ed. David Beach and Su Yin Mak (University of Rochester, 2016)
“Who is Heinrich Schenker and Why Should you Care?” by Ethan Hein: ethanhein.com/wp/2021/who-is-heinrich-schenker-and-why-should-you-care
"Music Theory and the White Racial Frame" by Philip Ewell (Society for Music Theory, Vol 26, No. 2, Sep. 2020): mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.ewell.html
Correspondence between Schenker and von Cube via Schenker Documents Online: schenkerdocuments.org/documents/correspondence/OJ-5-7a_45.html

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Music:

- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, K.397, performed by Lev Kitkin and available on IMSLP: tinyurl.com/MozFantaIMSLP

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