Book contents
- Schoenberg in Context
- Composers in Context
- Schoenberg in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I Schoenberg in Place
- Part II More than a Composer
- Chapter 6 Schoenberg the Painter
- Chapter 7 Schoenberg the Teacher
- Chapter 8 Schoenberg the Theorist
- Chapter 9 Schoenberg the Writer
- Part III Approaches to Composition
- Part IV Paradoxes and Predicaments
- Part V Schoenberg’s Others
- Part VI Viennese Institutions
- Part VII Performers and Critics
- Part VIII Ideas, Beliefs and Interventions
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 8 - Schoenberg the Theorist
from Part II - More than a Composer
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Book contents
- Schoenberg in Context
- Composers in Context
- Schoenberg in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Musical Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I Schoenberg in Place
- Part II More than a Composer
- Chapter 6 Schoenberg the Painter
- Chapter 7 Schoenberg the Teacher
- Chapter 8 Schoenberg the Theorist
- Chapter 9 Schoenberg the Writer
- Part III Approaches to Composition
- Part IV Paradoxes and Predicaments
- Part V Schoenberg’s Others
- Part VI Viennese Institutions
- Part VII Performers and Critics
- Part VIII Ideas, Beliefs and Interventions
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the composer’s music–theoretic thought by considering the topics highlighted in the title of his treatise, The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation. Aspects of his analytic methods including his understanding of the ‘musical idea’, presentation in the organic artwork, the concept of monotonality and the logic of musical form will be discussed in relation to Beethoven’s Symphony no. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 55, the ‘Eroica’ – the first score Schoenberg owned and analysed. Further comments will consider the foregoing theoretic–analytic subjects in relation to a programmatic reading of the ‘Eroica’ written by Richard Wagner, whom Schoenberg esteemed as a composer.
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