On 28 May 2007 at 9:01, Christopher Smith wrote: > Schenker is much maligned (by, among others, you) but like Freud, he > wasn't so much right or precise as revolutionary. He opened some > doors and changed the way we (well, I) thought about music. Sure he > was weak on some things, but I think his essential points stand.
Schenker has been done a great disservice by his followers, who have made what was simply a method of analyzing music for a *performer* to figure out the key structural points into a religion with dogma and heretics. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
