Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition -

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Résumé :
Models for Beginners in Composition was one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest attempts to reach a broad American audience through his pedagogical ideas. The novelty of MModels for Beginners in Composition lay in its streamlined approach-one basing all aspects of composition including motivic design, harmony, and the construction of themes on the two-measure phrase. In its practical function as a syllabus for the American classroom, Models for Beginners in Composition stands alone. One of its most significant contributions to American music education was its use of the two-measure phrase as the building block for an entire compositional method. This revised edition of Models for Beginners in Composition by Gordon Root incorporates Schoenberg's corrections to the original manuscript and a commentary tracing the evolution of Schoenberg's unique pedagogical approach. These features allow 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 of Schoenberg's classic composition syllabus....

Biographie:
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 Sch?nberg Center and The Avenir Foundation of Wheat Ridge Colorado.



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Sommaire:

• 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