Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-538221-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Originally published in 1943, Models for Beginners in Composition represents one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest attempts at reaching a broad American audience through his pedagogical ideas. The novelty of this book was its streamlined approach, basing all aspects of composition including motivic design, harmony, and the construction of themes on the two-measure phrase. This newly revised edition by Gordon Root incorporates many of Schoenberg's corrections to the original manuscript. It also includes a significant commentary elucidating the evolution of Schoenberg's pedagogical approach.

In its function as a practical manual for the American classroom, Models for Beginners in Composition is unique among Schoenberg's texts. The current Commentary explores Schoenberg's experience as a teacher at UCLA while tracing the development of the two-measure phrase as the main component of his pedagogical method. It demonstrates the way in which Schoenberg simultaneously preserved and adapted European ideas about tonal theory and pedagogy when he came to America, a give and take that allowed for increased theoretical originality and scope.

Models for Beginners in Composition established the two-measure phrase as one of the most significant of Schoenberg's contributions to American music education. This new edition, with Schoenberg's corrections and newly added commentary, allows readers to utilize and explore the text in greater depth. Students of composition, Schoenberg scholars, music theorists, and historians of music theory alike will no doubt welcome this new edition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Root, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents

- Abbreviations of Texts

- Preface: On the History of Models for Beginners in Composition

- Editorial Notes

- Commentary

- Models for Beginners in Composition

- Editor's Preface to the 1972 Edition

- Schoenberg's Preface to the 1943 Edition

- Syllabus

- Musical Examples:

- I. Coordination of Melody and Harmony

- II. Motive and Motival Features in Two-Measure Phrases

- III. Sentences

- IV. Periods

- V. Contrasting Middle Section

- VI. Recapitulation (a')

- VII. Minuet

- VIII. Scherzo

- IX. Phrases, Half Sentences, Antecedents, and "a "

- Sections of Ternary Forms

- Glossary

- Appendices

- Appendix 1: Manuscript Sources for Models for Beginners in Composition

- Appendix 2: Schoenberg's Teaching Schedule at UCLA

- Appendix 3: Assignments from Schoenberg's Beginning Composition Class

- Appendix 4: Key to Schoenberg's Symbols and Abbreviations

- Appendix 5: Primer in Regions

- Appendix 6: Primer in Transformations

- Notes

- Select Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gordon Root is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York in Fredonia, where he has taught since 2006. He earned a Ph.D. in Music Theory with a focus on Schoenberg's music from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Gordon Root's essays have been featured in Indiana Theory Review and Current Musicology. He has presented many papers on a range of topics including text and music, Schoenberg's pedagogy and harmonic theories, and programmatic aspects of Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone works. In 2009 he was awarded an Avenir Grant through the Arnold Schönberg Center and The Avenir Foundation of Wheat Ridge Colorado.