J. Daniel Jenkins - Schoenbergs Program Notes and Musical Analyses

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Sabine Feisst and Severine Neff

Volume 1: Schoenberg on Form, including Fundamentals of Musical Composition, edited by ine Heneghan

Volume 2: Schoenbergs Models for Beginners in Composition, edited by Gordon Root

Volume 3: Schoenberg on Counterpoint, including Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint, edited by Severine Neff

Volume 4: Schoenberg on Performance, edited by Avior Byron

Volume 5: Schoenbergs Program Notes and Musical Analyses, edited by J. Daniel Jenkins

Volume 6: Schoenbergs Correspondence with Anton Webern, edited and translated by Benjamin Levy

Volume 7: Schoenbergs Correspondence with Alma Mahler, edited and translated by Elizabeth L. Keathley and Marilyn McCoy

Volume 8: Schoenbergs Early Correspondence, edited and translated by Ethan Haimo and Sabine Feisst

Volume 9: Schoenbergs Correspondence with American Composers, edited and translated by Sabine Feisst

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Library of congress cataloging in publication data

Names: Schoenberg, Arnold, 18741951. | Jenkins, J. Daniel (John Daniel),

1973, editor.

Title: Schoenbergs program notes and musical analyses / edited by J. Daniel Jenkins.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016. | Series: Schoenberg in words ; v. 5 | English translations. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016007568 (print) | LCCN 2016007841 (ebook)

| ISBN 9780195385571 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780190258207 (E-book) | eISBN 9780190614010

Subjects: LCSH: Schoenberg, Arnold, 18741951Criticism and interpretation.

| Music20th centuryAnalysis, appreciation. | Music20th centuryHistory and criticism. | Atonality.

Classification: LCC ML410.S283 A2513 2016 (print) | LCC ML410.S283 (ebook) |

DDC 780.92dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016007568

To all those who may be inspired to whistle along

Program Notes [for the Four String Quartets] (Musical examples)

My Evolution (Musical examples)

Self Analysis

The Task of the Teacher

Todays Manner of Performing

Bach

Roundtable of Art

Pumpernickel

Translation of Facsimile Letter (75th birthday)

Program Notes for Pelleas (Music Examples)

In Answer to Coplands Reply

Program Notes for Three Piano Pieces

Alban Berg (Toldi Broadcast)

Program Notes to Verkl[rte] N[acht] (Music Examples)

Second Letter to Olin Downes (Music Examples)

Analysis of the Kammersymphonie (Music Examples)

Parsifal and Copyright

Interview with Myself

My Public

Mechanical Music Instruments

The Future of Orchestra Instruments

Cadenza

Success and Value

Art and the Motion Picture

Change of Direction (Zeitwende) [Turn of Time]

Intro[duction] to Die glckliche Hand

Tonality and Form

How Can a Music Student

How One Becomes Lonely

Analysis of the Orchestra Songs

Problems of the Educator

Melody and Theme

Although Schoenberg ultimately never signed a contract with any firm to publish this volume, Newlin moved forward with the translation of his texts.

The current volume, Schoenbergs Program Notes and Musical Analyses, does not replicate Schoenbergs Program Notes project. Rather, inspired by Schoenbergs belief that the book should inform and educate an audience, this volume is a compilation of the vast array of informative and analytical statements Schoenberg made about his own compositions. His insights emerge not only in traditional program notes but also from a variety of sources, including letters, sketch materials, pre-concert talks, public lectures, contributions to scholarly journals, newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, interviews, pedagogical materials, and publicity fliers. While many of the texts were chosen for this volume because they elucidate specific compositions, other items resonate with the general principle of program notes, expounding on Schoenbergs compositional process or his views on modern composition in general. Furthermore, because of the importance of the radio as means of transmitting Schoenbergs ideas, radio broadcasts of a more general and less technical nature are also included. Taken as a whole, these writings and statements call attention to Schoenbergs ongoing initiative to enlarge his listening publicindividuals who would want to know his music and thought intimately.

Arnold Schoenberg to Reba Sparr, November 10, 1943, E.o. LC, in Thomas McGeary, The Publishing History of Style and Idea, JASI 9, no. 2 (November 1986): 181 .

For further discussion of the proposed Program Notes volume, see Julia Bungardt, Nur wo es sich um Wahrung hherer Kunstinteressen handelt, soll polemisch Stellung genommen werden: Arnold Schnberg verffentlich in Zeitung und Zeitschriften, in Arnold Schnberg in seinen Schriften. KatalogFragenEditorisches, ed. Hartmut Krones (Vienna: Bhlau Verlag, 2011), 7999 .

Arnold Schoenberg to Dika Newlin, March 18, 1950, E.o. LC. In a letter to the editor of Whos Who in Music sent on Schoenbergs behalf dated March 14, 1950, Richard Hoffmann suggested that Schoenberg had already published two collections of essays: Style and Idea and Program Notes. E.o. LC.

T31.20 E.o. ASC. See also the more extensive list included in T59.10 E.o. ASC. Items on these lists that are included in this edition are 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.4, 4.3, 4.7, 4.13, 4.20, 5.3, 5.11, 5.13, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 7.2, and 7.3.

Arnold Schoenberg to Dika Newlin, March 3, 1951, E.o. LC.

A greatly expanded version of Style and Idea appeared in English in 1975, edited by Leonard Stein, but very few of Schoenbergs program notes and analyses appeared in that volume. According to a November 7, 1967, letter from Leonard Stein to Claudio Spies, there was once again the intention to publish a second volume of Schoenbergs writings, dedicated to analyses of his own works, but this plan never came to fruition either. E.o. Gertrud Schoenberg Collection, ASC.

I wish to express my deep appreciation to the many people who contributed to bringing this project fruition. First and foremost, I thank Nuria Schoenberg Nono, Lawrence Schoenberg, and Ronald Schoenberg for their generous support, and for granting permission to reprint Schoenbergs text and music manuscripts. Therese Muxender, Eike Fess, Eike Rathgeber, and Julia Bungardt of the Arnold Schnberg Center answered many questions, providing the benefit of their expertise. The series editors, Sabine Feisst and Severine Neff, selflessly gave of their time to refine and improve the manuscript. Suzanne Ryan of Oxford University Press remained immensely supportive throughout. Jessen OBrien, Adam Cohen, Andrew Maillet, Mary Jo Rhodes, and Molly Morrison answered countless inquiries, making the process go as smoothly as possible.