Monday, June 19, 2023

June 19 - Heinrich Schenker (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for June 19th are found here: Heinrich Schenker (2019), Guy Lombardo (2020), Alfredo Catalani (2021), and Heinrich Schenker; Paula Abdul (2022)

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Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was one of the most influential music theorists in the 20th century.

 


Academic Festival


A reviewer exposing the gaffes

In a theorist’s Schenkerian graphs

Held forth with such force

That the thing was the source

Of pedantic Urlinieal laughs.

 

 

 

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