Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach

Key differences between 3rd and 2nd editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 4 years (2010 vs 2006).
• Cadwallader's music textbook was first published in 1989.
• Chapter 2 "Melody and Counterpoint" presents more frequent reference to the principles of strict counterpoint.
• Chapter 3 "Bass Lines and Harmonic Structure" has improved discussions of harmonic structure and of the imaginary continuo as a tool for analysis.
• Greater emphasis throughout Part 2 on Schenker's ideas on musical form.
• Chapter 6 "Techniques of Melodic Prolongation" has new discussion on Techniques in Combination.
• Reorders Chapter 9 to present the typical formal structures for binary form in a way that parallels Schenker's ideas about form and structure.
• Chapter 10 "Ternary Forms and Rondo" provides new analysis of a Brahms Intermezzo.
• Completely revised concluding chapter that discusses Schenker's ideas on form in relation to common tonal patterns (i.e., structural paradigms).