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Informationen zum Autor J. Daniel Jenkins is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of South Carolina. His research focuses on music of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on Arnold Schoenberg and Elliott Carter. Klappentext In 1950, as Arnold Schoenberg anticipated the publication of a collection of 15 of his most important writings, Style and Idea, he was already at work on a second volume to be called Program Notes. Inspired by this idea, Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses can boast the most comprehensive study of the composer's writings about his own music yet published. Schoenberg's insights emerge not only in traditional program notes, but also in letters, sketch materials, pre-concert talks, public lectures, contributions to scholarly journals, newspaper articles, interviews, pedagogical materials, and publicity fliers. The editions of the texts in this collection, based almost exclusively on Schoenberg's original manuscript sources, include many items appearing in print in English for the first time, as well as more familiar texts that preserve musical and textual information eliminated from previous editions. The book also reveals how Schoenberg, desirous to communicate with and educate an audience, took every advantage of changes in technology during his lifetime, utilizing print media, radio broadcasts, record jackets--and had he lived, television--for this purpose. In addition to four chapters in which Schoenberg illuminates 42 of his own compositions, the book begins with chapters on his development and influences, his thoughts about trends in modern music, and, in a nod to the importance of the radio in providing a venue for music analysis, a chapter about Schoenberg's radio broadcasts. Zusammenfassung Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses is a comprehensive study of the composer's writings about his own music. The texts include program notes, letters, sketch materials, pre-concert talks, public lectures, scholarly writings, newspaper articles, interviews, pedagogical materials, publicity fliers, radio broadcasts, and liner notes. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Companion Website Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on Texts and Translations Introduction I. On Development and Influences 1.1. Who Am I?/My Evolution (Retrospective/Looking Back), November 29, 1949 1.2. My Models, June 6, 1928 1.3. A Self-Analysis (Maturity), March 3, 1948 1.4. Schoenberg Looks Backward--and Ahead, September 26, 1948 II. On the Radio 2.1. Discussion over Radio Berlin with Preußner and Strobel, March 30, 1931 2.2. First American Radio Broadcast, November 19, 1933 2.3. Interview with Max van Leuven Swarthout, Fall 1935 2.4. Radio Interview with Raoul Gripenwaldt, July 7, 1948 2.5. To the Birthday of Broadcasts of Contemporary Music, September 12, 1948 2.6. For the Broadcast, August 22, 1949 2.7. For My Broadcast, August 23, 1949 III. On Modern Music 3.1. Polytonalists [I], April 21, 1923, and Polytonalists [II], November 29, 1923 3.2. Notes for an Essay Entitled, "The Contemporary Situation in Music," 1929 3.3. What Have People to Expect from Music? November 7, 1935 3.4. Teaching and Modern Trends, June 30, 1938 3.5. Advice for Beginners in Composition with Twelve Tones, 1951 3.6. This is Probably the Solution to the Problem, Undated IV. On Compositions: 1898-1907 4.1. Polytonality in My Works, December 12, 1924 4.2. Arnold Schoenberg Writes the Following about Himself and His String Quartet[sic], October 21, 1902 4.3. Program Notes to the Second Arnold Schoenberg Evening (Chamber Music in Large Halls), June 3, 1919 4.4. Excerpt from the Harmonielehre about Ninth Chords in Inversion, 1922 4.5. Constructives in Verklärte Nacht, 1932 4.6. Letter to Bruno Walter, December 23, 1943 4.7. Liner Notes for the Ca...
