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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Arnold Schoenberg; Roy E Carter; Walter Frisch |
| ISBN: | 9780520266087 0520266080 |
| OCLC Number: | 669843249 |
| Notes: | Reprint. Originally published in 1911 by Universal Edition. This translation was originally published in 1978 by University of California Press and was based on the third edition (1922) of the German text. New foreword by Walter Frisch, dated 2010 at end. |
| Description: | xxix, 440 pages : music ; 26 cm |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: I. Theory or System of Presentation? -- II. Method of Teaching Harmony -- III. Consonance and Dissonance -- IV. Major Mode and the Diatonic Chords -- Diatonic Triads -- Spacing the Chords -- Connection of the Diatonic Primary and Secondary Triads -- Connection of the Diatonic Primary and Secondary Triads in Short Phrases -- VIIth Degree -- Inversions of the Triads -- Sixth Chord -- Parallel Octaves and Fifths -- Connection of the Triads with the Sixth Chords, the Sixth Chords with the Triads and the Sixth Chords with One Another -- Six-Four Chord -- Seventh Chords -- Inversions of the Seventh Chords -- Connection of Seventh Chords with One Another -- V. Minor Mode -- Diatonic Triads in Minor -- Inversion of the Triads in Minor -- Seventh Chords and their Inversions in Minor -- VI. Connection of Chords That Have No Common Tone (Harmonisches Band) -- VII. Note continued: XV. Modulation to the IInd, Vth, and VIth Circles of Fifths, to the VIIth and VIIIth, and Also to More Closely Related Circles By Segments and Through Intermediate Keys -- Fifth and Sixth Circles of Fifths -- XVI. Chorale Harmonization -- Cadences (Schlusse) -- XVII. `Non-Harmonic' Tones -- Suspension, Double Suspension, etc., Passing Tones, Changing Tones, Anticipations -- XVIII. Few Remarks Concerning Ninth Chords -- XIX. Some Additions and Schematic Presentations to Round Out the System -- Alterations of Triads, Seventh Chords, and Ninth Chords -- Abbreviation of Set Patterns Through Omission of Intermediate Steps -- Triads Connected with All Other Triads and Seventh Chords; also, All Seventh Chords with One Another -- Some Other Details: Possibilities of the Ascending Seventh; Basses for the Diminished Seventh Chord; a Chord of Mozart; an Eight-Part Chord -- Additional Schemes for Modulating -- Some Additional Details -- Concerning Fluctuating and Suspended Tonality -- Chromatic Scale as a Basis for Tonality -- XX. Whole-Tone Scale and Related Five and Six-Part Chords -- XXI. Chords Constructed in Fourths -- XXII. Aesthetic Evaluation of Chords With Six or More Tones. |
| Other Titles: | Harmonielehre. |
| Responsibility: | Arnold Schoenberg ; translated by Roy E. Carter. |
Abstract:
There is a new critical foreword by Walter Frisch, H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University, that expands this centennial edition. Frisch puts Schoenberg's masterpiece into historical and ideological context, delineating the connections between music, theory, art, science, and architecture in turn-of-the century Austro-German culture.
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