Week 2

 

Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Igor Stravinsky

 

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.

Additional Reading

 

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

Listen

 

Scores in week 2 packet

 

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 and Spring Rounds