ABSTRACT
Listen to this work several times before undertaking analysis. Many relationships that are not readily apparent to the eye are often revealed through careful listening, and vice versa.
Schoenberg: Klavierstücke, op. 11, no. 1
1I. The excerpt that follows was composed by Anton Webern (1883-1945). Schoenberg’s most illustrious student brought extreme harmonic unity and economy of means to the atonal style. Determine the set that is responsible for the harmonic unity in the passage that follows, and show examples.
