On Translating Schoenberg's Harmonielehre

01 October 1983 Jacques Barzun (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973), p. xvii. 7Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony, trans. Roy E. Carter (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1978), p. 1. The sentence quoted opens his preface to the first edition,...

Comprehending Twelve-Tone Music as an Extension of the Primary Musical Language of Tonality

01 October 1984 Music 5, No. 2 (Fall 1981), 167-68, and Robert W. Wason's review of Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony, trans. Roy E. Carter, in Journal of Music Theory 25, No. 2 (Fall 1981), 311-14, for discussion of this point. 7Arnold Schoenberg, Structural...

The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

Looking Through a Musical Lens: Music, Identity and Culture in Texas

27 August 2012 Introduction1 During the 2010 and 2011 spring semesters we team-taught an upper-elective undergraduate interdisciplinary course at Baylor University entitled "Music and Identity in Texas Culture." As far as we could ascertain, a class of this nature...

Schoenberg on the Modes: Characteristics, Substitutes, and Tonal Orientation

01 October 1993 one's options to the final moment—being always at the mercy of the dealer. 1Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony, Roy E. Carter trans. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), 427-28; translation of Harmonielehre, third ed. (Vienna: Universal...

A Theory of Pitch-Class-Set Extension in Atonal Music

01 October 2001 Over years of teaching pitch-class-set theory and analysis as part of undergraduate twentieth-century theory courses, I have often reflected (and heard perceptive students remark) on an apparent shortcoming of the system. At that stage of their...

". . . Our Daily Bread"

01 October 1972 There is a greater need than pianoforte teachers and singing teachers, and that is a numerous company of writers and talkers who shall teach the people how to listen to music so that it shall not pass through their heads like a vast tonal...

Chromatic Completion: Its Significance in Tonal and Atonal Contexts

01 October 1988 51. 2See Charles Rosen, Arnold Schoenberg (New York: Viking, 1975), 57-62. 3Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony, trans. Roy E. Carter (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), 367. 4Schoenberg, 366. 5Schoenberg, 367. 6Webern, 51. authors: Paul...

Music as Organic Evolution: Schoenberg's Mythic Springboard Into the Future

01 October 1993 Although long an archetype of modern thought, biological evolution's eminent role has not always been an appropriate one: its convenience as a cover for all manner of processive change has often been abused. Arenas of thought once presumed accountable...

Schoenberg's Theoretical Writings after the Harmonielehre: A Study of the Published and Unpublished Manuscripts

01 October 1993 29 (1972): 239-56. 8Letter quoted and translated in Bryan R. Simms, "Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony, translated by Roy E. Carter," Music Theory Spectrum 4 (1982): 156-57. 9See letter to Albertine Zehme dated May 5, 1917: Arnold Schoenberg,...