Week 2
Read
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.
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
Other Composers in this period:
Italian: Luigi Russolo
Polish: Karol Szymanowski
Russian: Aleksandr Scriabin