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Schenkerian analysis (critique only)

Schenkerian analysis

1. Lodewijk Muns. Why I am not a Schenkerian
2. David Temperley. Composition, Perception, and Schenkerian Theory
3. David Temperley. The Question of Purpose in Music Theory: Description, Suggestion and Explanation
4. Emphasize that it’s a US thing
5. Diergarten/Neuwirth, when publishing a modern study book on form (2019), explicitly say that, while they base their book on Marx/Ratz/Schoenberg, Darcy/Hepokoski and Caplin, “Strategies geared towards Heinrich Schenker are not central to the book (regardless of this, superordinate frameworks are occasionally included for illustration purposes)”
6. https://sites.google.com/site/euromac2014/programme/4a/mathews
7. David Huron. On the future of music research - see a notion of Poetic Scholarship
8. https://academic.udayton.edu/PhillipMagnuson/soundpatterns/ is Schenkerian
9. Narmour “Beyond Schenkerism” - the author promotes his “implication-realization model” instead, which isn’t popular
10. Leslie David Blasius. Schenker’s Argument and the Claims of Music Theory - Probably not a critique, but at least some fresh examination
11. Drew Nobile is Schenkerian in a good way, see his introduction

Misc

• A Generative Theory of Tonal Music - An attempt to build a generative grammar for common-practice (pre-20-century) music. This work is also continued in the essay, the second book where the switch from generative grammar to preference rules occurs, and the path is reflected in the third one. Tymoczko’s critical review
• Jason Yust. Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form - not necessarily Schenkerian, but illustrations have that flavour of reductionism

• Eric Wen. Graphic Music Analysis