The School of Musical Composition, Practical and Theoretical

Abstract

The influential music theorist and composer Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795–1866) spent much of his career as a professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn. He believed music should be part of everyone's general education and lobbied the Prussian government for a comprehensive national scheme for musical education. His compositions included many songs and choral works now largely forgotten, with the exception of the 1841 oratorio Mose. Among his publications is Gluck und die Oper (1863) which is reissued in this series in both the German original and English translation. His most famous and influential work, Die Lehre von der musikalischen Komposition, was intended for the students of the University of Berlin, setting out in simple terms the principles of music theory and composition for the untrained. This English translation, of only the first volume of the fourth edition, was published in 1852.

Anotações sobre forma musical e três técnicas motívico-temáticas de Schoenberg, desdobramento motívico, variação progressiva e prosa musical

“…Ele implica uma noção de "crescimento" relacionado à abordagem orgânica de variação motívica, distinta daquela associada à técnica de variação propriamente dita, como em um tema com variações, por exemplo. A primeira sentença (c. 23-30) consiste em um segmento inicial (c. [23][24][25][26] que repete a Grundgestalt nas formas de tônica e dominante. Na segunda metade da sentença inicia-se um processo de liquidação através da repetição do compasso inicial na tônica.…”