Austrian music theorist (1868-1935)
Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868, Wisniowczyki Ukraine – 13 January 1935, Vienna) was a music theorist, best known for his approach to musical analysis, now usually called Schenkerian analysis.
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It is improper, to expressly pursue the Urlinie in performance and to single out its tones...for the purpose of communicating the Urlinie to the listener." Rather, "for the performer, the Urlinie provides, first of all, a sense of direction. It serves a somewhat equivalent function to that which a road map serves for a mountain climber.