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Music since 1900 Ser.: Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music : Symmetry and the Musical Idea by Jack Boss (2014, Hardcover)

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Containing close analytical readings of a large number of Schoenberg's key twelve-tone works, including Moses und Aron, the Suite for Piano Op. 25, the Fourth Quartet, and the String Trio, the study provides the reader with a clearer understanding of this still-controversial, challenging, but vitally important modernist composer.

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101107046866

ISBN-139781107046863

eBay Product ID (ePID)168259026

Product Key Features

Number of Pages463 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSchoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music : Symmetry and the Musical Idea

Publication Year2014

SubjectHistory & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, Instruction & Study / Theory

TypeTextbook

AuthorJack Boss

Subject AreaMusic

SeriesMusic since 1900 Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight42.3 Oz

Item Length9.9 in

Item Width7.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-026790

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'Future scholars interested in following Boss's lead will benefit immeasurably from his careful analyses, his synthesis of previous scholarship, and, perhaps most of all, the provocative questions his work raises.' Zachary Bernstein, Journal of Music Theory

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal781.2/68092

Table Of Content1. Musical idea and symmetrical ideal; 2. Suite for Piano, Op. 25: varieties of idea in Schoenberg's earliest twelve-tone music; 3. Woodwind Quintet, Op. 26: the twelve-tone idea reanimates a large musical form; 4. Three Satires, Op. 28, #3: the earliest example of the 'symmetrical ideal' in a (more or less) completely combinatorial context; 5. Piano Piece, Op. 33a: the 'symmetrical ideal' conflicts with and is reconciled to row order; 6. Fourth String Quartet, Op. 37, mvt. 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 communicating with God using word or image; 8. String Trio, Op. 45: a musical idea (and a near-death experience) is expressed as a conflict between alternative row forms.

SynopsisJack Boss takes a unique approach to analyzing Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone music, adapting the composer's notion of a 'musical idea' - problem, elaboration, solution - as a framework and focusing on the large-scale coherence of the whole piece. The book begins by defining 'musical idea' as a large, overarching process involving conflict between musical elements or situations, elaboration of that conflict, and resolution, and examines how such conflicts often involve symmetrical pitch and interval shapes that are obscured in some way. Containing close analytical readings of a large number of Schoenberg's key twelve-tone works, including Moses und Aron, the Suite for Piano Op. 25, the Fourth Quartet, and the String Trio, the study provides the reader with a clearer understanding of this still-controversial, challenging, but vitally important modernist composer., Jack Boss takes a unique approach to analyzing Schoenberg's twelve-tone music, adapting the composer's notion of a 'musical idea' - problem, elaboration, solution - as a theoretical framework. Containing analytical readings of key works including Moses und Aron, this study provides the reader with a clearer understanding of this vitally important composer.

LC Classification NumberML410.S283 B67 2014