셴커식 분석이론과 음악적 인지

Schenkerian theory and musical cognition

This study aimed at shedding light on how man can better understand the music. Thus, it was examined how valid Schenkerian theory that is well-known as an tonal music analysis method is for recognizing the music by considering a variety of major cognitive theories from the gestalt perspective. In analyzing and understanding the music, Schenkerian theory is closely related to the main principles of the gestalt theory - proximity, similarity, good continuation, and common fate. And most of principles of the gestalt theory are shown in Schenkerian theory. In addition, Schenkerian theory has been proved as a very effective way for transferring musical memory into LTM(long term memory). Of course, Schenkerian theory has been mainly used for analyzing the tonal music, thus there is a limitation for analyzing a variety of musical eras. Nevertheless, Schenkerian theory is still an effective, efficient and attractive tool for understanding the tonal music based on the functional harmony.