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The Abolition of Thematicism and the Structural Meaning of the Method of Twelve-Tone Composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Leopold Spinner
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The structural significance of the Method of Composing with Twelve Tones is expressed in the following statements by Arnold Schoenberg in ‘Composition with Twelve Tones’ (Style and Idea, Williams & Norgate Ltd., London, p. 107):

After many unsuccessful attempts during a period of approximately twelve years, I laid the foundation for a new procedure in musical construction which seemed fitted to replace those structural differentiations provided formerly by tonal harmonies. I called this procedure Method of Composing with Twelve Tones which are related only with one another.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 146 , September 1983 , pp. 2 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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* My translations. (L.S.)

* My translation (L.S.)

* My translation (L.S.)

† Subsequently published in von Rauchhaupt, Ursula (ed.), Schoenberg, Berg, Webem: The String Quartets, A Documentary Study (Hamburg, 1971) [Ed.]Google Scholar