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Schoenberg and his Op. 23 No. 4: A Functional Analysis

Schoenberg and his Op. 23 No. 4: A Functional Analysis Music Analysis, 18/iii (1999) 375 ß Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1999. Published by Blachwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK DAVID S. LEFKOWITZ Jewry'2; and the 60th anniversary of both the completion of that manifesto and Kristallnacht.3 In this light it is appropriate, perhaps, not to re-evaluate but to re-admire some of Arnold Schoenberg's prescience, both musical and otherwise. I do so through an original composition: in part a vocal setting of portions of `A Four-Point Program', in part a recomposition ± a Functional Analysis ± of Op. 23 No. 4. `A Four-Point Program for Jewry', begun in 1933 and completed in 1938, commences with an enumeration of the endangered Jewish populations of Central and Eastern European countries, and quickly turns to a call for action. The tally of six-and-three-quarter million people is chilling in its nearaccuracy to the total number of Jews who would actually be killed; it is a tally which, as Schoenberg pointed out, `every keen and realistic observer should have known ... beforehand', but which few articulated. His non-rhetorical `is there room in the world for almost 7,000,000 people?' is equally chilling, in that the answer the world would provide was clearly `no'. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Music Analysis Wiley

Schoenberg and his Op. 23 No. 4: A Functional Analysis

Music Analysis , Volume 18 (3) – Oct 1, 1999

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Copyright © 1999 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0262-5245
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1468-2249
DOI
10.1111/1468-2249.00100
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Music Analysis, 18/iii (1999) 375 ß Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1999. Published by Blachwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK DAVID S. LEFKOWITZ Jewry'2; and the 60th anniversary of both the completion of that manifesto and Kristallnacht.3 In this light it is appropriate, perhaps, not to re-evaluate but to re-admire some of Arnold Schoenberg's prescience, both musical and otherwise. I do so through an original composition: in part a vocal setting of portions of `A Four-Point Program', in part a recomposition ± a Functional Analysis ± of Op. 23 No. 4. `A Four-Point Program for Jewry', begun in 1933 and completed in 1938, commences with an enumeration of the endangered Jewish populations of Central and Eastern European countries, and quickly turns to a call for action. The tally of six-and-three-quarter million people is chilling in its nearaccuracy to the total number of Jews who would actually be killed; it is a tally which, as Schoenberg pointed out, `every keen and realistic observer should have known ... beforehand', but which few articulated. His non-rhetorical `is there room in the world for almost 7,000,000 people?' is equally chilling, in that the answer the world would provide was clearly `no'.

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Music AnalysisWiley

Published: Oct 1, 1999

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