neoclassicism and 12-tone music
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Neoclassicism and 12-Tone Music. Neoclassicism. Igor Stravinsky, Octet (1923) “Objectivity ” Adoption of a preromantic stance Classicism of Haydn and Mozart Influence of Baroque music Influence of jazz and popular music. Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Path. Histoire du soldat (1918) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Neoclassicism and 12-Tone Music
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Neoclassicism
• Igor Stravinsky, Octet (1923)• “Objectivity”• Adoption of a preromantic stance• Classicism of Haydn and Mozart• Influence of Baroque music• Influence of jazz and popular music
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Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Path
• Histoire du soldat (1918)– theatrical piece– seven players and narrator– influence of jazz and popular
music• Pulcinella (1920)– ballet score– based on eighteenth-century
melodies
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The Music of Stravinsky’s Octet
• [Anthology 3-24] – 1. Sinfonia• sonata form• octatonic melodies
– 2. Tema con variazioni– 3. Finale• walking bass• contrapuntal• reference to Bach
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Some Ideas About the Octet
• “Some Ideas about My Octuor”– “My Octuor is not an ‘emotive’ work”– “I admit the commercial exploitation of a musical
composition”– “This sort of music has no other aim than to be
sufficient in itself”
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Stravinsky and Neoclassicism
• Symphony of Psalms (1930)• Symphony in C (1938–40)• Symphony in Three Movements (1945)• Violin Concerto (1931)• The Rake’s Progress (1951)
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The Ivory Tower
• Society for Private Musical Performance– 117 concerts between 1918 and 1921– compositions by German modernists and works by
Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky, and others
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In Search of Utopia:Schoenberg and Twelve-Tone Technique
• “Aggregate compositions”• Theories of Josef Mattias Hauer (1883–1959)– Nomos
• Means by which they could create extended instrumental works
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Giving Music New Rules
• Tonreihe “tone row”– ordering of all 12 pitches from which motivic and
harmonic content will be derived– row may be transposed, in inversion, retrograde,
or retrograde inversion– rows subdivided into segments
• Serialism• “Twelve-tone technique”; “dodecaphony”
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Giving Music New Rules
• Suite for Piano, Op. 25 [Anthology 3-25]– Präludium– Gavotte and Musette– Intermezzo– Menuett– Gigue
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Back Again to Bach
• BACH (B♭ACB) inserted into Op. 25 tone row• Schoenberg, “National Music” (1931)• Contrapuntal art• Variations for Orchestra (1931)– BACH allusions
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Berg’s Twelve-Tone Romanticism
• Alban Berg (1885–1935)• Studies with Schoenberg• Influence of Mahler• Wozzeck (1922)
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Berg’s Twelve-Tone Romanticism
• Chamber Concerto for violin, piano, and a wind ensemble of thirteen instruments (1925)– ArnolD SCHönBErG = A – D – E♭- C – B – B♭ – E – G– Anton wEBErn = A – E – B♭ – E – AlBAn BErG = A – B♭ – A – B♭ – E – G
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Berg’s Twelve-Tone Romanticism
• Lyric Suite for string quartet (1926) [Anthology 3-26]– symmetrical “all-interval” row– Hanna Fuchs-Robettin/ Alban Berg (HF/AB = BF/AB♭)– numerous extramusical references
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Epitome: Anton Webern
• Anton Webern (1883–1945)• Symphony, Op. 21 (1928) [Anthology 3-27]– A-F#-G-A♭-E-F B-B♭-D-C#-C-E♭• intervallic palindrome