Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses

Herausgeber: Jenkins, J Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses is a comprehensive study of the composer's writings about his own music. The texts include program notes, letters, sketch materials, pre-concert talks, public lectures, scholarly writings, newspaper articles, interviews, pedagogical materials, publicity fliers, radio broadcasts, and liner notes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780195385571
• ISBN-10: 0195385578
• Artikelnr.: 47865521

Autorenporträt

J. Daniel Jenkins is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on music of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on Arnold Schoenberg and Elliott Carter.

Inhaltsangabe

* About the Companion Website * Preface * Acknowledgements * Abbreviations * Note on Texts and Translations * Introduction * I. On Development and Influences * 1.1. Who Am I?/My Evolution (Retrospective/Looking Back)
November 29
1949 * 1.2. My Models
June 6
1928 * 1.3. A Self-Analysis (Maturity)
March 3
1948 * 1.4. Schoenberg Looks Backward--and Ahead
September 26
1948 * II. On the Radio * 2.1. Discussion over Radio Berlin with Preußner and Strobel
March 30
1931 * 2.2. First American Radio Broadcast
November 19
1933 * 2.3. Interview with Max van Leuven Swarthout
Fall 1935 * 2.4. Radio Interview with Raoul Gripenwaldt
July 7
1948 * 2.5. To the Birthday of Broadcasts of Contemporary Music
September 12
1948 * 2.6. For the Broadcast
August 22
1949 * 2.7. For My Broadcast
August 23
1949 * III. On Modern Music * 3.1. Polytonalists [I]
April 21
1923
and Polytonalists [II]
November 29
1923 * 3.2. Notes for an Essay Entitled
"The Contemporary Situation in Music
" 1929 * 3.3. What Have People to Expect from Music? November 7
1935 * 3.4. Teaching and Modern Trends
June 30
1938 * 3.5. Advice for Beginners in Composition with Twelve Tones
1951 * 3.6. This is Probably the Solution to the Problem
Undated * IV. On Compositions: 1898-1907 * 4.1. Polytonality in My Works
December 12
1924 * 4.2. Arnold Schoenberg Writes the Following about Himself and His String Quartet[sic]
October 21
1902 * 4.3. Program Notes to the Second Arnold Schoenberg Evening (Chamber Music in Large Halls)
June 3
1919 * 4.4. Excerpt from the Harmonielehre about Ninth Chords in Inversion
1922 * 4.5. Constructives in Verklärte Nacht
1932 * 4.6. Letter to Bruno Walter
December 23
1943 * 4.7. Liner Notes for the Capitol Records Release of Verklärte Nacht
August 26
1950 * 4.8. Symphonic Introductory Music to Pelleas und Melisande by Maeterlinck
perhaps 1902 * 4.9. Proposed Program of Pelleas und Melisande
1902-3 * 4.10. Letter to Alexander von Zemlinsky
February 20
1918 * 4.11. Excerpts from the Harmonielehre about Whole-Tone Chords and Chords in Fourths (1922) * 4.12. Keywords for a "Free " Lecture in Boston with the Aid of Slonimsky
January 4
1934 * 4.13. Liner Notes for the Capitol Records Release of Pelleas und Melisande
1949 * 4.14. Foreword to a Broadcast of the Capitol Recording of Pelleas und Melisande
February 17
1950 * 4.15. Analysis of op. 6
no. 7
1948 * 4.16. Schoenberg's "Private Program" for the First String Quartet
1904 * 4.17. Analysis of the First String Quartet
1907 * 4.18. Cues for a Lecture on the First String Quartet at the University of Southern California
c. 1935 * 4.19. Excerpts from The Musical Idea and the Logic
Technique
and Art of Its Presentation
1934-36 * 4.20. Liner Notes for the Dial Records Release of the First Chamber Symphony
1949 * 4.21. Rigoletto and Kammersymphonie
An Analysis
Undated * 4.22. Class Analysis of the Kammersymphonie
op. 9
after 1944 * 4.23. Letter to Hermann Scherchen
June 23
1923 * V. On Compositions: 1908-22 * 5.1. Class Analyses of the Second String Quartet
after 1944 * 5.2. Program Notes for the Society for Art and Culture: New Compositions by Arnold Schoenberg
January 14
1910 * 5.3. Introduction to the Three Pieces for Piano
July 27
1949 * 5.4. Excerpt from the Berlin Diary
January 28
1912 * 5.5. Excerpt from the Harmonielehre about Erwartung
1922 * 5.6. Letter to Leopold Stokowski
July 2
1945 * 5.7. At the Time When I Painted
April 5
1948 * 5.8. Introductory Remarks for a New York Philharmonic Society Broadcast of "Lied der Waldtaube " from Gurrelieder
October 30
1949 * 5.9. Notes on the Gurrelieder
January 12
1951 * 5.10. Notes for the Columbia Records Release of Pierrot lunaire
1941 * 5.11. Breslau Lecture on Die glückliche Hand
March 24
1928 * 5.12. The Simplified Study/Conductor's Score: Foreword to the Four Orchestral Songs
op. 22
September 1917 * 5.13. Analysis of the Four Orchestral Songs
op. 22
February 21
1932 * 5.14. Program and Plan for a Symphony
before May 27
1914 * VI. On Compositions: 1923-34 * 6.1. Two Letters to Nicholas Slonimsky
June 3
1937 and January 2
1940 * 6.2. About Wilhelm Werker's Study of the Symmetry of Fugues
etc. in Bach
September 20
1928 * 6.3. Method of Composing with Twelve Tones Only Related to One Another
1935 * 6.4. Preliminary Remarks about opp. 27 and 28 to be placed after the title page
before the first page of score (Unused)
early 1926 * 6.5. (Definite) Foreword to opp. 27 and 28
1926 * 6.6. Movement Titles for the Suite
op. 29
1924-26 * 6.7. Excerpt from a Letter to Rudolf Kolisch
July 27
1932 * 6.8. Interview with Myself (Ideas of Arnold Schoenberg)
October 6
1928 * 6.9. Radio Lecture on the Variations for Orchestra
March 22
1931 * 6.10. A Letter and a Draft of a Letter to Olin Downes
November 8
1938 * 6.11. Radio Lecture for a Performance of Von heute auf morgen
February 27
1930 * 6.12. Draft of a Foreword for a Publicity Flier for Von heute auf morgen
after April 1
1930 * 6.13. Danger-Fear
1929 * 6.14. Letter to Walter Eidlitz
March 15
1933 * 6.15. The Transplanted Composer
April 19
1950 * 6.16. Letter to Pablo Casals
February 20
1933 * 6.17. About the String Quartet Concerto
February 1935 * 6.18. Draft of a Foreword to the Suite for String Orchestra for College Orchestra Composed by Arnold Schoenberg
perhaps 1935 * 6.19. Draft of a Letter to Olin Downes
October 1935 * VII. On Compositions: 1936-47 * 7.1. Excerpt from a Letter to Louis Krasner
March 3
1939 * 7.2. Program Notes to and Audio Commentary for the Kolisch Quartet Recording of the Four String Quartets
1936 * 7.3. Program Notes for the Juilliard String Quartet Performance of the Four String Quartets
end of December 1949 or early January 1950 * 7.4. Letter to Alfred V. Frankenstein
March 18
1939 * 7.5. To Kol nidre
1938 or later * 7.6. Draft of a Letter to Elliot E. Cohen
January 28
1950 * 7.7. Radio Interview with Lisa Sergio
November 1940 * 7.8. Table of Motives
1948 * 7.9. Letter to Donald W. Gray
April 19
1950 * 7.10. How I Came to Compose the Ode to Napoleon
perhaps 1944 * 7.11. Program for the Piano Concerto
1942 * 7.12. Two Documents about the Theme and Variations
perhaps 1944 * 7.13. My Fatality
March 9
1949 * 7.14. Excerpt from a Letter to Kurt List
November 1
1948 * Epilogue: Melodrama--Retrospective/Looking Back
Undated * Notes * Personalia * Select Bibliography * Select Discography