On May 28, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Ken Moore wrote:
"Dean M. Estabrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you have a perfect fifth, or perfect fourth in a vertical
aggregate, you have, according to Schenker, a tonal center present.
That's one authority who carries little weight with me. Schenker was
not a total fool, but he was invincibly ignorant of the acoustics on
which he purported to base his theories, unscholarly in some of his
arguments, and a chauvinist in his musical tastes.
More important than any of this, his theories are ahistorical--that is,
they do not correspond to anything the actual composers of this music
had in mind.
This is a problem I have with much of what passes for music theory
today, not just Schenker.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://www.kallistimusic.com/
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