Theoretical Harmony and the Understanding of Music

Schenkerian Theory in the United States. A Review of Its Establishment and a Survey of Current Research Topics

“…For the next few decades, the meetings of the AMS and its various regional chapters provided venues for Schenkerian papers. Schenker's pupil Victor Zuckerkandl spoke at a New England chapter meeting of the AMS in February 1942, just over two years after arriving in the US; and Felix Salzer gave a paper at the national AMS meeting in December 1949 (abstracts were published as Zuckerkandl 1945 andSalzer 1950). These papers-like one by Weisse to be cited momentarily-each contrasted, in different ways, the conventional "vertical" approach to harmony with Schenker's more "horizontal" approach.…”