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1 - Tonal oder Atonal?

The Complicated, Contradictory Nature of Schoenberg’s Middle-Period Music (Op. 11, No. 1)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2019

Jack Boss
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University of Oregon
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The introductory chapter begins by offering a rebuttal to Ethan Haimo’s claim in Schoenberg's Transformation of Musical Language (Cambridge, 2006) that “atonal” is an inappropriate term for Schoenberg's middle-period music. It does so by presenting Schenkerian analyses of “Jesus bettelt,” Op. 2, No. 2, and the first Piano Piece, Op. 11, demonstrating that the traditional contrapuntal structures of tonal music are present in the first piece, though often harmonized with unusual chords, but are incomplete or non-existent in the second piece. The chapter then proceeds to show how features originally characteristic of tonal music, other than typical Schenkerian middlegrounds, play crucial roles in organizing Op. 11, No. 1 – traditional tonal form, as well as motivic and harmonic processes that manifest and elaborate the “musical idea,” a conflict-elaboration-solution narrative.

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Schoenberg's Atonal Music
Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function
, pp. 1 - 40
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Tonal oder Atonal?
  • Jack Boss, University of Oregon
  • Book: Schoenberg's Atonal Music
  • Online publication: 28 June 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108296991.001
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  • Tonal oder Atonal?
  • Jack Boss, University of Oregon
  • Book: Schoenberg's Atonal Music
  • Online publication: 28 June 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108296991.001
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  • Tonal oder Atonal?
  • Jack Boss, University of Oregon
  • Book: Schoenberg's Atonal Music
  • Online publication: 28 June 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108296991.001
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