The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation, New Paperback English Edition

Contents

• Contents
• Foreword (2006) by Walter Frisch
• List of Abbreviations of Cited Sources
• Editors' Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Commentary
• Schoenberg's View of Art
• Schoenberg's Preface
• The Musical Idea
• Comprehensibility and Coherence
• Theory of Form
• The Constructive Function of Harmony
• Conclusion
• The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation
• Preface and Overview
• Preface
• Title Page
• Principles of the Presentation of the Idea
• Plan of the Book
• The Profundity of the Idea and Its Realization as a Standard
• The Musical Idea and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation
• Idea (1 and 2)
• The Idea in the Contrapuntal Art of Composition and Its Presentation
• Principles of Construction
• Comprehensibility
• Laws of Comprehensibility
• Coherence
• The Laws of Musical Coherence
• Elements of Form
• The Parts of a Piece
• Part Elements of Form
• Phrase
• Gestalt
• Grundgestalt and Motive
• The Difference Between Gestalt and Phrase
• Features of the Motive
• Statement
• Stable Formation
• Loose Formation
• Theme
• Melody
• Sonority as a Formative Element
• Rhythm
• Rhythm
• Classification of Rhythms
• Accentuation and Nonaccentuation
• Formal Procedures
• [Formal Procedures]
• Articulation
• Change, Variation, Variant, Varying
• Kinds of Variation
• Coherence of "New Components"
• Mirror Forms
• Close
• Cadencing
• Cadential Fall
• Kinds of Connection
• Technique of Joining
• Condensation
• Dissolution, Liquidation
• Tendency of the Smallest Notes
• The Structural Capacities of the Scale
• Wave-Shaped Progression
• Contrasts (Contrasting Themes)
• Digression from the Main Idea
• Principal Idea, Subsidiary Idea
• Subordinate Theme
• Secondary, Tertiary, etc. Gestalten and Motives
• The Shaping of Principal and Subordinate (Accompanying) Voices
• Development Section
• Sequences
• Intensification
• Does Repetition Have an Intensifying Effect?
• Voice (Independent)
• Introduction (1 and 2)
• Preparation
• Extramusical Means of Coherence
• Fantasy
• Description of All Forms
• Miscellaneous
• Performance and Gestalt
• The Sense of Rit. and Accel.
• Relaxation
• Symmetry
• Origin of Repetitions
• Primitive Principles
• Popular Music and Melody
• Harmony
• The Constructive Function of Harmony
• Addendum
• Keywords Still to Be Indexed
• Keywords
• Concordance of Terms
• Appendix 1 Descriptions of the Gedanke Manuscripts
• Appendix 2 Contents of Manuscript No. 10, Listed in Their Original Order
• Appendix 3 German Texts of Unpublished Gedanke Manuscripts Referred to in the Commentary
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index of Musical Examples
• Name Index
• Subject Index