Prolongation in post-tonal music is a topic that music theorists have engaged for several decades now. The problems of applying Schenkerian analytical techniques to post-tonal music are numerous and have invited several adaptations of the method. The bulk of the thesis offers a survey of prolongational analyses of post-tonal music. Analyses of theorists such as Felix Salzer, Allen Forte, Joseph Straus, Edward Laufer, and Olli Väisälä are examined in order to reveal their various underlying theoretical principles. The thesis concludes with an analysis of Alban Berg's Warm die Lüfte from his Op. 2 collection that focuses on the prolongation of a referential sonority that forms the background of the song. The analysis highlights the most significant analytical techniques and theoretical concepts explored in the survey and codifies them in a generally applicable method of post-tonal prolongational analysis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc33168 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Huff, David, 1976- |
| Contributors | Slottow, Stephen P., Schwarz, David, 1952-, Sovik, Thomas Paul |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | vi, 76 p. : ill., Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Huff, David, 1976-, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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