Analyzing Schubert

When Schubert''s contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argues that these claims have haunted the analysis of Schubert''s harmony ever since, outlining why Schubert''s music occupies a curiously marginal position in the history of music theory. Analyzing Schubert traces how critics, analysts and historians fr...