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26: 511: 119: 115:"Structural level" may not exactly correspond to Schenker's own concept. Schenker thought that the levels were levels of elaboration of the piece of music, so that the first level was not the background itself (the starting point), but its first elaboration at the early middleground. He called levels "the voice-leading and transformation levels, prolongations, elaborations, and similar means." 20: 165:
1, p. 3), only here the contrapuntal octave progression of the lower voice is placed not on the divider at the upper fifth, as it was there, but on that at the lower fifth. Voice-leading errors threaten on the way to this divider: consecutive (contrary) fifths at d), open fifths at
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c) shows the chromaticisms, effecting more powerful (tonicizing) connections and thereby articulating the octave progression in three third progressions: f–d, d–b, a–f;
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b) introduces the downward register transfer f—f by means of third progressions in the outer voices and the 5—6 exchange, then the renewed swing upwards to f;
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The image hereby shows Schenker's earliest presentation of levels in a figure, his analysis of J.S. Bach's Little Prelude in D minor, BWV 926, in
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f) finally shows the removal of the consecutive fifths by means of the exchange 6–5, which is also welcome to the diminution."
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For example, while details such as melodic notes exist at the lowest structural levels, the foreground, in the background the
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Bello, Juan Pablo, ed. (2008). Kirlin, Philip B. and Utgoff, Paul E. "A Framework for Automated Schenkerian Analysis",
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d) and e) show how, in the second chord of the octave series, the third c is not led up chromatically to c
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Transl. by J. Dubiel, slightly modified to make it more literally conform to the German original.
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Das Wesen des musikalischen Kunstwerks: Eine Einführung in Die Lehre Heinrich Schenkers
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Stimmführungs–, Verwandlungsschichten, Prolongationen, Auswickelung u. ä.
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at a different level of abstraction, with levels typically including
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Schenkerian analysis
piece of music
fundamental structure
tonal music
tonic
musical form
perfect authentic cadence
development
sonata allegro form

prolongations
Klang (music)
Prolongation
Prolongation in Schenkerian theory
Urlinie
ISBN
978-0-615-24849-3
Jonas, Oswald
ISBN
0582282276
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Schenkerian analysis
Bass arpeggiation
Diminution
Fundamental line
Fundamental structure

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