William Renwick - Analyzing Fugue, a Schenkerian Approach 2nd Edition (Peter Lang, 2025)

The Definitive Schenkerian Study of Fugue — Second Edition

William Renwick’s Analyzing Fugue: A Schenkerian Approach is widely regarded as the most rigorous and comprehensive application of Schenkerian analysis to the fugue as a form. First published in 1995, this thoroughly revised and expanded second edition (Peter Lang, 2025) updates Renwick’s groundbreaking methodology with new analytical examples, refined voice-leading graphs, and extended discussions of fugue in both tonal and historical context. Drawing on a broad repertoire ranging from Bach to the nineteenth century, the book offers music theorists, analysts, and advanced students an authoritative framework for understanding the deep structural logic of fugal counterpoint.

Renwick demonstrates how Schenkerian concepts — including Ursatz derivation, linear progressions, and motivic parallelism — illuminate the underlying tonal coherence of fugal writing in ways that conventional formal analysis cannot. The result is an indispensable resource for graduate seminars in music theory, advanced counterpoint courses, and independent scholars engaged in tonal analysis.

Book Details

• Author: William Renwick
• Publisher: Peter Lang, 2nd Edition (2025)
• Subject: Schenkerian analysis, fugue, tonal theory, music theory
• Ideal for: graduate students, music theorists, counterpoint scholars, university libraries
• Physical book — NEW condition