Twentieth-century Music

Week 2

Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Igor Stravinsky

Read

Paul Griffiths, CHWM, pp. 231-43.

Arnold Schoenberg, Excerpts from “New Music: My Music,” from Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg, ed. Leonard Stein, transl. Leo Black (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975).

Arnold Schoenberg, Foreward to Pierrot Lunaire

Carl Dahlhaus,"Schoenberg's Orchestral Piece Op. 16, No. 3 and the concept of Klangfarbenmelodie," in Schoenberg and the New Music, trans. Derrick Puffett and Alfred Clayton (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 141–43.

Carl van Vechten, “A New Principle in Music,” from Music and Bad Manners (NT: Alfred Knopf, 1916), 217–25.

Lynne Rogers, "Evoking the Past, Inspiring the Future," in Stravinsky in Context, edit. Graham Griffiths (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 304-312.

Listening

Arnold Schoenberg, Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16, No. 3

Arnold Schoenberg,Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, No. 1

Anton Webern, Five Pieces for String Quartet , Op. 5

Alban Berg, Final three scenes of Wozzeck

Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Augurs of Spring

Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Spring Rounds

Additional Reading

Willi Reich,"A Guide to Alban Berg’s Opera Wozzeck," in Modern Music (1931))

Walter Bailey,"Arnold Schoenberg," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002)

James Siddons,"Anton Webern," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002

Peter Platt, "Alban Berg," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002