Among his diverse research interests are American popular music of the 1920s-60s, including a focus on Irving Berlin and Jimmy Van Heusen; the theory and aesthetics of music of the mid-eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, including a focus on Igor Stravinsky; and Schenkerian theory and its reception history in the U.S.
According to Middleton (1990), Schenkerian analysis of music corresponds to the Chomskyan notion of deep structure, applying to a two-level generative structure for melody, harmony, and rhythm, of which the analysis by Lee (1985) of rhythmical structure is an instance.
The Implication-Realization (I-R) model of melodic expectation was developed by Eugene Narmour as an alternative to Schenkerian analysis centered less on music analysis and more on cognitive aspects of expectation.
analysis | functional analysis | Fourier analysis | Mathematical analysis | mathematical analysis | Infrared Processing and Analysis Center | Genetic analysis | harmonic analysis | SWOT analysis | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis | Formal concept analysis | Cluster analysis | Behavioral Analysis Unit | Schenkerian analysis | Isotope analysis | intelligence analysis | Asymptotic analysis | Trend analysis | The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System | Synchronic analysis | Regression analysis | performance analysis | Musical analysis | International Institute of Business Analysis | Intelligence analysis | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Gravimetric analysis | Fundamental analysis | Functional analysis | frequency analysis |
As a theorist, he was an expert in Schenkerian analysis, and he was the co-author (with Carl Schachter) of one of the standard theory textbooks used throughout the United States, Harmony and Voice Leading (first published in 1979).
Carl Schachter, music theorist specializing in Schenkerian analysis