Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-q99xh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-03T13:56:13.274Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Theoretical Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1973

Alexander Goehr
Get access

Extract

In his life-time Schoenberg published, apart from important essays which must be the subject of separate evaluation, one major theoretical work, the Harmonielehre of 1911, and another, Structural Functions of Harmony, completed in 1946, appeared shortly after his death, in 1954. In addition there is a short work, Models for Beginners in Composition (1942). Posthumous publications edited by Leonard Stein and Gerald Strang are Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint (published in 1963 but dating from around 1936) and Fundamentals of Musical Composition (1967, but worked on between 1937 and 1948).

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 100 , 1973 , pp. 85 - 96
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 The Royal Musical Association and the Authors

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Josef Rufer, The Works of Arnold Schoenberg: A Catalogue, transl. Dika Newlin, London, 1962, pp. 135 ff.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., p. 138.Google Scholar

3 Quoted by Rufer, op. cit., pp. 140–41.Google Scholar

4 Contrapuntal Technique in the Sixteenth Century, Oxford, 1922, p. 2.Google Scholar

5 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, newly transl. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuiness, London, 1961, p. 39.Google Scholar

6 Harmonielehre, 3rd rev. edn., Vienna, 1921, pp. 14 ff.Google Scholar

7 Ibid., p. 18.Google Scholar

8 Ibid., p. 502.Google Scholar

9 Ibid., pp. 20 ff.Google Scholar

10 Ibid., pp. 49–50.Google Scholar

11 Ibid., p. 182.Google Scholar

12 See Structural Functions of Harmony, passim.Google Scholar

13 Harmonielehre, p. 430.Google Scholar

14 ‘Why is Schoenberg's Music so Difficult to Understand?’ (1904), reprinted in Willi Reich, Alban Berg, transl. Cornelius Cardew, London, 1965, pp. 189–204.Google Scholar

15 Harmonielehre, pp. 399, 401.Google Scholar

16 Harmonielehre, p. 418.Google Scholar

17 Structural Functions of Harmony, p. 193.Google Scholar

18 Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint, p. 59.Google Scholar

19 See Rufer, Schoenberg: A Catalogue, pp. 136 ff.Google Scholar