Graphic Music Analysis: An Introduction to Schenkerian Theory and Practice

Graphic Music Analysis presents Schenkerian analysis in a practical and engaging manner that will resonate with musicology, theory, and composition students, as well as performing musicians. With over 650 musical examples, Eric Wen guides students through the step-by-step process of creating graphic representations of music and reveals how Schenkerian ideas evolve out of analytical issues in the works encountered. Rather than promoting an analytic method for its own sake, Wen derives structural techniques from their particular musical situations to help students engage directly with the music. The textbook has an online companion website (textbooks.rowman.com/wen) featuring: oFull scores and recordings of the works discussed in the book oDownloadable workbook of additional pieces to analyze oDetailed commentary on Schenker's own analysis of J. S. Bach's Prelude in C from Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier An instructor's manual with a step-by-step guide to analyzing the supplementary workbook examples is also available. Please email textbooks@rowman.com for more information.

Eric Wen is recognized as one of today's preeminent experts in Schenkerian analysis. He has published numerous academic articles, and presented papers at many universities and conferences, including all five International Schenker Symposiums. A member of the faculty at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia since 1999, Wen has also taught in the doctoral program at The Graduate Center (CUNY), as well as at the Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music in New York. Before then he taught at the University of London, as well as the Guildhall School and Royal Academy of Music in London, where he also served as editor of The Strad magazine and The Musical Times.