Structural level

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In Schenkerian analysis, a structural level is a representation of a piece of music at a different level of abstraction, with levels typically including foreground, middleground, and background.[1] According to Schenker musical form is, "an energy transformation—a transformation of the forces which flow from the background to the foreground through the structural levels."[2]

For example, while details such as melodic notes exist at the lowest structural levels, the foreground, in the background the fundamental structure is the most basic structural level of all tonal music, representing the digression from and necessary return to the tonic that motivates musical form. It may be conceived of in a specific piece as the opening in the tonic and the return to the tonic with a perfect authentic cadence (V-I) after the development of sonata allegro form.

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  1. ↑ Bello, Juan Pablo, ed. (2008). Kirlin, Philip B. and Utgoff, Paul E. "A Framework for Automated Schenkerian Analysis", ISMIR 2008, p.363. ISBN 978-0-615-24849-3.
  2. ↑ Jessica Wiskus (2006). "Inhabited Time: Couperin's Passacaille", Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos, Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa, ed., vol. III, p.189. ISBN 978-1-4020-3717-7. Cites Free Composition (1935).
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