Schoenberg's Atonal Music

Contents

• 1. Tonal oder Atonal? The complicated, contradictory nature of Schoenberg's middle-period music (Op. 11, No. 1);
• 2. Piano pieces Op. 11, Nos. 2 and 3: The latter movements of a remarkably progressive cycle;
• 3. Das Buch der hangenden Garten, Op. 15, Nos. 7 and 11: basic images in two of the earliest atonal pieces;
• 4. Erwartung, Op. 17: A Leitmotivic Opera and a 'cumulative setting', atomized;
• 5. Six little piano pieces, Op. 19 (Nos. 2, 3, and 6): musical idea and basic image in miniature;
• 6. Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, Nos. 1, 14 and 21: basic image at the apex of its development;
• 7. Summary, and the way forward to twelve-tone music.