Robert Morgan - Becoming Heinrich Schenker

Becoming Heinrich Schenker: Music Theory and Ideology by Robert P. Morgan is a scholarly work that offers a fresh perspective on the development of Heinrich Schenker’s mature music theory, showing how its core ideas evolved logically from earlier formulations.

Published by Cambridge University Press in 2014, the book addresses the long-standing controversy surrounding Schenker’s mature theory, particularly its attempt to explain musical pitch motion. Morgan argues that while the mature theory differs in many respects from Schenker’s earlier work, it is fundamentally rooted in those earlier ideas.