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Harmonia
Verdadeiro monumento teórico do século XX, "Harmonia" de Arnold Schoenberg constitui talvez o mais importante livro jamais escrito sobre a matéria. Dedicado à memória de Gustav Mahler e publicado pela primeira vez no ano de sua morte, em 1911, "Harmonia" é um desses raros livros que permitem ao músico e estudioso da música dar-se ao luxo de dispensar outras leituras que tratam do mesmo assunto: o ensino da harmonia e os segredos e meandros da tonalidade. A obra realiza magnífica síntese histórica das principais tendências na abordagem da harmonia tona;, em exposição clara, metódica e ao mesmo tempo exaustiva. Longe, entretanto, de se restringir a uma abordagem exclusivamente tonal, o autor conduz o leitor às indagações que se faziam prementes para a composição do início do século passado, fase na qual surgia a chamada "atonalidade", encabeçada pelo próprio Schoenberg. O grande mestre da Segunda Escola de Viena discorre ainda sobre as limitações do termo "atonal" e sobre os emergentes recursos da harmonia, já distante da tonalidade clássica, introduzindo o leitor no universo da música contemporânea, da qual foi um dos principais protagonistas
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First published July 1, 1911
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Arnold Schoenberg
451 books59 followersNoted Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg abandoned tradition and developed the twelve-tone system for music.
Associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, he led the second Viennese school. He used the spelling Schönberg until his move to the United States in 1934, whereupon he altered it to Schoenberg "in deference to American practice."
His approach in terms of harmony developed among the major landmarks of 20th-century thought; at least three generations in the Europeans and Americans consciously extended his thinking or in some cases passionately reacted in opposition. During the rise of the Nazi party, people labeled jazz as degenerate art.
People widely knew Schoenberg early in his career for his success in simultaneously extending the opposed German romantic styles of Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner. Later, his name came to personify pioneering innovations, the most polemical feature of 20th-century art. In the 1920s, the technique, a widely influential method of Schoenberg, manipulated an ordered series of all in the chromatic scale. He also coined the term variation, and this first modern embraced ways of motifs without resorting to the dominance of a centralized melodic idea.
Schoenberg, an important theorist, also painted and influentially taught his students, who included Alban Berg, Anton Friedrich Wilheim von Webern, Hanns Eisler, Egon Wellesz, and later John Milton Cage, Lou Harrison, Earl Kim, and many other prominent. Avant-garde thought throughout the 20th century echoes many of practices, including the formalization of method and his habit of openly inviting audiences to think analytically. His crucial, often polemical views of history and aesthetics influenced many significant critics, including Theodor Adorno, Charles Rosen, and Carl Dahlhaus,of the 20th century. His thought also considerably influenced the pianists Rudolf Serkin, Artur Schnabel, Eduard Steuermann, and later Glenn Gould.
The Arnold Schönberg center in Vienna collects his archival legacy.
Associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, he led the second Viennese school. He used the spelling Schönberg until his move to the United States in 1934, whereupon he altered it to Schoenberg "in deference to American practice."
His approach in terms of harmony developed among the major landmarks of 20th-century thought; at least three generations in the Europeans and Americans consciously extended his thinking or in some cases passionately reacted in opposition. During the rise of the Nazi party, people labeled jazz as degenerate art.
People widely knew Schoenberg early in his career for his success in simultaneously extending the opposed German romantic styles of Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner. Later, his name came to personify pioneering innovations, the most polemical feature of 20th-century art. In the 1920s, the technique, a widely influential method of Schoenberg, manipulated an ordered series of all in the chromatic scale. He also coined the term variation, and this first modern embraced ways of motifs without resorting to the dominance of a centralized melodic idea.
Schoenberg, an important theorist, also painted and influentially taught his students, who included Alban Berg, Anton Friedrich Wilheim von Webern, Hanns Eisler, Egon Wellesz, and later John Milton Cage, Lou Harrison, Earl Kim, and many other prominent. Avant-garde thought throughout the 20th century echoes many of practices, including the formalization of method and his habit of openly inviting audiences to think analytically. His crucial, often polemical views of history and aesthetics influenced many significant critics, including Theodor Adorno, Charles Rosen, and Carl Dahlhaus,of the 20th century. His thought also considerably influenced the pianists Rudolf Serkin, Artur Schnabel, Eduard Steuermann, and later Glenn Gould.
The Arnold Schönberg center in Vienna collects his archival legacy.
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September 14, 2026
Mi libro de cabecera en la época de estudiante de Composición y, mucho más tarde, he vuelto a él - especialmente su prólogo - en muchísimas ocasiones.
Pienso que es un antes y un después en los tratados de armonía, además de un acicate para lo que luego se llamaría "Armonía Moderna", que tantas alergias causó a los seguidores (¿seguidistas, más bien?) de Zamacois.
Pienso que es un antes y un después en los tratados de armonía, además de un acicate para lo que luego se llamaría "Armonía Moderna", que tantas alergias causó a los seguidores (¿seguidistas, más bien?) de Zamacois.
January 17, 2024
Una obra maestra.
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