The twelve-note music of Anton Webern : old forms in a new language / Kathryn Bailey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailey, Kathryn, Dr., author.

Series:

Music in the twentieth century ; 2.

Music in the twentieth century ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Webern, Anton, 1883-1945--Criticism and interpretation.

Webern, Anton.

Twelve-tone system.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 462 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

12-note music of Anton Webern.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Summary:

This important new study reassesses the position of Anton Webern in twentieth-century music. The twelve-note method of composition adopted by Anton Webern had profound consequences for composers of the next generation such as Stockhausen and Boulez, who saw Webern's music as revolutionary. In her detailed analyses, however, Professor Bailey demonstrates a fundamentally traditional aspect to Webern's creativity, when describing his own music. Professor Bailey analyses all Webern's twelve-note works (from Op. 17 to Op. 31) i.e. the instrumental and vocal music written between 1924 and 1943. These analyses draw on sketch material recently made available at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel and include transcriptions of little-known drafts and sketches. A most valuable aspect of the book is the inclusion in appendices of such materials as a complete explanation of the row content of each work, the correct prime form of each of the rows from Op. 20 onwards, with a matrix constructed for each, and exhaustive row analyses.

Contents:

The rows

Row topography

Canon

The movements in sonata form : Opp. 20/ii, 21/i, 22/i, 24/i, and 27/i

The movements in variation form : Opp. 21/ii, 24/iii, 27/iii, 28/i, and 30

The movements in rondo and ternary forms : Opp. 20/i, 22/ii, 24/ii, 28/ii, and 28/iii

The movement in binary form : Op. 27/ii

Das Augenlicht

Cantata I

Cantata II.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 454-488) and index.

ISBN:

9781139085946

1139085948

9780511552458

0511552459

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07665 hdl