Heinrich Schenker - Das Meisterwerk in der Musik. Three Volumes Bound as One (Olms, 1974)

Das Meisterwerk in der Musik, like Der Tonwille, carries three types of article: the analytical study of a single work or movement (which includes source studies and textual criticism, as well as performance and secondary literature, in a format that Schenker devised first for his monograph Beethovens Neunte Sinfonie); the essay on a topic in theory or textual criticism; and the free assemblage of polemics, selected verbal quotations, and aphorisms under the title "Vermischtes" [Miscellanea]. There is, however, a progression across the three volumes: the number of analyses reduces from ten to four to one, the analyses themselves becoming longer; theory remains the same at four articles for volumes I and II, then disappears altogether from volume III; "Vermischtes" remains constant, but volume III contains the additional sharply polemical article "Rameau or Beethoven?".

Heavily annotated with concordances from Der freie Satz. Formerly from the collection of Walt Everett.