PICTORIAL DESCRIPTION-TONAL STRUCTURE RELATIONSHIP IN R. SCHUMANN’S “ERSTER VERLUST”, OP.68: A SCHENKERIAN APPROACH

In this study, a Schenkerian analysis is carried out on R. Schumann's “Erster Verlust - First Loss" - No.16 in Op.68, Album für die Jugend, - for investigating how the feeling of sadness and the related imagery on the background of the work which is described by Ludwig Richter’s drawing are expressed by means of the tonal structure of the work