Schenkerian analysis
Schenkerian analysis is an approach to
musical analysis devised by
Heinrich Schenker. It reduces all
tonal music to a simple progression based on the
tonic triad which in its simplest form is:
This reduction to a piece's basic essence (which Schenker called the Ursatz) is arrived at by taking the original piece as written by the composer and progressively stripping away levels of decoration.
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