Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-086565-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Gordon Root is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York at 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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2017
Reihe/Serie	Schoenberg in Words
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	0-19-086565-2 / 0190865652
ISBN-13	978-0-19-086565-8 / 9780190865658
Zustand	Neuware