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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S
PRELUDE FROM THE SUITE FOR PIANO, OP. 25:
FROM COMPOSITION WITH TWELVE TONES
TO THE TWELVE-TONE METHOD
by
Deborah H. How
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(HISTORICAL MUSICOLOGY)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Deborah H. How
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| Title | Arnold Schoenberg's prelude from the Suite for Piano, op. 25: from composition with twelve tones to the twelve-tone method |
| Author | How, Deborah H. |
| Author email | dhhow@musette.org; dhhow@alum.swarthmore.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Music (Historical Musicology) |
| School | Thornton School of Music |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-03-23 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-08-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Simms, Bryan R. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Brown, Bruce A. Lazar, Moshe |
| Abstract | Arnold Schoenberg’s Suite for Piano, Op. 25, is historically significant not only because it is the first of the composer’s large works to be unified by a single twelve-tone row, but also because its composition sits astride one of the most complex stylistic and technical changes -- the passage from freely atonal to twelve-tone serial composition -- in all of 20th-century music. This dissertation will show that Schoenberg’s early serial odyssey cannot be viewed without considering external parameters, including concurrent twelve-tone models and neoclassicism, the social-political and artistic climate of the early 1920s, and Schoenberg’s inherent desire -- perhaps extramusically motivated -- to be credited as the inventor of the twelve-tone method.; It has long been assumed that while working on the Prelude from the Suite for Piano, Op. 25, in July 1921, Schoenberg discovered the “Method of Composing with Twelve Tones which are Related Only with One Another,” and that this discovery would “assure the supremacy of German music for the next hundred years.” In fact, Schoenberg made several different discoveries that were revealed or announced on at least three different occasions, in 1921, 1922, and 1923 -- discoveries manifested in the compositional history of the Suite for Piano, which spanned those years. Understanding that Schoenberg’s conception of “composition with twelve tones” was ever-changing in the early 1920s is crucial in discussing both his music and text manuscripts from that time. A thorough examination of Schoenberg’s manuscripts, drafts, and sketches -- as well as his essays, aphorisms, and letters, along with written materials of his friends, colleagues, and students -- will demonstrate that the difficulties and inconsistencies of dating the transition from freely atonal to twelve-tone serial composition are a result not of discrepancies in the primary sources, but rather of shoehorning false assumptions into data that support earlier, flawed, scholarly conclusions.; The Suite for Piano, Op. 25, will be revealed as more than Schoenberg’s first twelve-tone composition, as more than a laboratory of early twelve-tone row manipulations, as more than an example of Schoenberg’s “neoclassical” period, but rather as a work totally representative of its time, an amalgam of ideals and idioms drawn from the various schools of musical thought evident in Europe after World War I, a composition that looks forward and reflects backward while embracing the present. |
| Keyword | Arnold Schoenberg; composition with twelve tones; twelve-tone composition; neoclassical; neoclassicism; serial; Suite for Piano, Op. 25 |
| Coverage date | 1920/1930 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2491 |
| Rights | How, Deborah H. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-How-3149 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-How-3149.pdf |
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| Full text | ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S PRELUDE FROM THE SUITE FOR PIANO, OP. 25: FROM COMPOSITION WITH TWELVE TONES TO THE TWELVE-TONE METHOD by Deborah H. How A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HISTORICAL MUSICOLOGY) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Deborah H. How |
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