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David Damschroder, Harmony in Schubert (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2010). xii+321. $99.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2012

Suzannah Clark*
Affiliation:
Harvard University

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2 Georg Joseph Vogler (1749–1814), Handbuch zur Harmonielehre und für den Generalbass (Prague: Barth, 1802)Google Scholar; see also Grave, Floyd, ‘Abbé Vogler's Theory of Reduction’, Current Musicology 29 (1980): 4169 Google Scholar.

3 For the most accessible explanation of Richard Cohn's hexatonic model, see his ‘Maximally Smooth Cycles, Hexatonic Systems, and the Analysis of Late-Romantic Triadic Progressions’, Music Analysis 15 (1996): 9–40Google Scholar. The symbols P and L are explained on p. 12; the ‘Northern’ cycle in Fig. 1 (p. 17) illustrates that A♭ major and E minor appear on opposite poles of the circle, a position in the cycle that also means they share no common tones – hence they are each other's ‘hexatonic pole’.

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5 See for instance McClary, Susan, ‘Constructions of Subjectivity in Schubert's Music’, in Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas (New York: Routledge, 1994): 205233 Google Scholar and ‘The Impromptu that Trod on a Loaf: or How Music Tells Stories’, Narrative 5 (1997): 20–35; Everett, Walter, ‘Deep-Level Portrayals of Directed and Misdirected Motions in Nineteenth-Century Lyric Song’, Journal of Music Theory 48 (2004): 2568 CrossRefGoogle Scholar, ‘Grief in Winterreise: A Schenkerian Perspective’, Music Analysis 9 (1990): 157–75; Rings, Steven, ‘Perspectives on Tonality and Transformation in Schubert's Impromptu in E♭, D. 899, no. 2’, Journal of Schenkerian Studies 2 (2007): 3363 Google Scholar.

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