Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition

Gordon Root is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York in Fredonia, where he has taught since 2006. He earned a Ph.D. in Music Theory with a focus on Schoenberg's music from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Gordon Root's essays have been featured in Indiana Theory Review and Current Musicology. He has presented many papers on a range of topics including text and music, Schoenberg's pedagogy and harmonic theories, and programmatic aspects of Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone works. In 2009 he was awarded an Avenir Grant through the Arnold Schönberg Center and The Avenir Foundation of Wheat Ridge Colorado.

• Table of ContentsAbbreviations of TextsPreface: On the History of Models for Beginners in CompositionEditorial NotesCommentaryModels for Beginners in CompositionEditor's Preface to the 1972 EditionSchoenberg's Preface to the 1943 Edition SyllabusMusical Examples: I. Coordination of Melody and Harmony II. Motive and Motival Features in Two-Measure PhrasesIII. Sentences IV. Periods V. Contrasting Middle SectionVI. Recapitulation (a')VII. MinuetVIII. ScherzoIX. Phrases, Half Sentences, Antecedents, and "a"Sections of Ternary FormsGlossaryAppendicesAppendix 1: Manuscript Sources for Models for Beginners in CompositionAppendix 2: Schoenberg's Teaching Schedule at UCLAAppendix 3: Assignments from Schoenberg's Beginning Composition ClassAppendix 4: Key to Schoenberg's Symbols and AbbreviationsAppendix 5: Primer in Regions Appendix 6: Primer in TransformationsNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

This is the first scholarly edition of what could be argued as Schoenbergs most important general work...A highlight of the book is Gordon Roots insightful commentary, a valuable resource of its own. the brevity and conciseness of the more compact publication aimed at novices is its very strength and joy for teachers.