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Author Boss, Jack Forrest.

Title Schoenberg's twelve-tone music : symmetry and the musical idea / Jack Boss.

Publication Info. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Music since 1900
Music since 1900.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of music examples; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and notational conventions; 1 Musical idea and symmetrical ideal; Schoenberg''smusical idea; Musical idea before Schoenberg; Musical idea since Schoenberg; 2 Suite for Piano Op. 25: varieties of Idea in Schoenberg''searliest twelve-tone music; Prelude; Menuett; Gigue; 3 Woodwind Quintet Op. 26: the twelve-tone Idea reanimates a large musical form; Introduction; Movement III: Etwas langsam.
4 Three Satires Op. 28, No. 3: The earliest example of the ""symmetrical ideal"" in a (more or less) completely combinatorial context5 Piano Piece Op. 33a: The ""symmetrical ideal"" conflicts with and is reconciled to row order; 6 Fourth String Quartet Op. 37, movement I: two motives give rise to contrasting row forms, meters, textures, and tonalities (and are reconciled) within a large sonata form; 7 Moses und Aron: an incomplete musical idea represents an unresolved conflict between using word and image to communicate God; Introduction; Leitmotivic partitions; ""Depths ofGod""
The discretetetrachord partition: Moses'' UnderstandingAaron''sUnderstanding -- Thechromatic tetrachord partition: Magic of the Image -- God''s ChosenPeople -- RevelryI; RevelryII; Aaron''s HandiworkI-IV; AlternatingDyads -- SickWoman -- People''sUnderstanding -- The end of Act II, scene 5 as a culmination of processes that came before; 8 String Trio Op. 45: a musical idea and a near-death experience are expressed as a conflict between alternative row forms; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Jack Boss presents detailed analyses of Arnold Schoenberg''s twelve-tone pieces, bringing the composer''s ''musical idea'' - problem, elaboration, solution - to life.
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Subject Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
Criticism and interpretation.
Twelve-tone system.
Twelve-tone system.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Boss, Jack Forrest. Schoenberg's twelve-tone music 9781107046863 (DLC) 2014026790 (OCoLC)864788522
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