Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Chromatic Scale, Carl Dahlhaus, Developing Variation
25 Apr 2016
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Schoenberg"s justifications for his actions and analysis of these justifications. Pushing tonality to its limits like wagner and strauss. 1908: no longer necessary (chromaticism) to have feeling of relationship to home key. Early works: advanced chromaticism (until 1908) eg. verkl rte nacht. Middle period: atonal works (1908 to early 1920s) eg. pierrot lunaire. Later works: 12-tone serialism (early 1920s to death) eg. piano suite, op. Expressionism: inwards, beneath the surface of human psychological. Impression interested in surface beauty of objects/scenes, effects of light: turns gaze inward about humans/ the world, object of art becomes psychological truth, atonal language highly suitable. Doesn"t matter about the outside it"s about the inside, the emotions. Depiction of the individual"s internal state, spontaneous, immediate feeling. Preoccupied with full frontal face, idea of eyes to the window to the soul. Exemplifies schoenberg"s interest in expressionism and atonality before 12 tone period: entirely about inner emotions.
