A common process contributes to organizing the interval structures in both tonal music and the atonal music of Arnold Schoenberg, a process he called "developing variation." This article shows how ...

Theory and Practice provides a venue for all manner of music-theoretical scholarship, including thehistory of music theory, music theory pedagogy, and interdisciplinary research. It has been published ...

Today, over a century after Schoenberg composed ‘Pierrot Lunaire’, the Western musical mind remains set as if by default to the comforting chords of tonal music. So the Orchestre philhamonique de ...

Reading Allen Shawn’s Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey reminded me of an anecdote Oscar Levant gave about Schoenberg in his Memoirs of an Amnesiac: Once he was humming an unhummable theme with unnegotiable ...

Fleeing the rise of the Third Reich, composer Arnold Schoenberg landed in the United States as that most American of arrivals: a refugee. Settling with his family in southern California and teaching ...

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