In musical composition, developing variation is a formal technique in which the variations are produced through the development of existing material. The term was coined by Arnold Schoenberg, twentieth-century composer and inventor of the twelve-tone technique, who believed it was one of the most important compositional principles since around 1750:[1]
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References
- 1 2 3 Haimo, Ethan. 1990. Schoenberg's Serial Odyssey: The Evolution of his Twelve-Tone Method, 1914–1928, p. 73, n8. Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press; New York : Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-315260-6.
- ↑ Arnold Schoenberg, "Bach, 1950", in Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg, edited by Leonard Stein, with translations by Leo Black, 393–397 (London: Faber and Faber, 1975): p. 397. Cited by Haimo (1990, [page needed]).
- ↑ Frisch, Walter (1984). Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variation. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520069589.
- ↑ Frisch, Walter (1982). "Brahms, Developing Variation, and the Schoenberg Critical Tradition". 19th-Century Music. 5 (3): 216. JSTOR 746461?seq=2.
- ↑ Arnold Schoenberg, "Composition with Twelve Tones (2), c. 1948", in Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg, edited by Leonard Stein, with translations by Leo Black, 245–49 (London: Faber and Faber, 1975): p. 248. Cited by Haimo (1990, [page needed]).
Further reading
- Grimes, Nicole. 2012. "The Schoenberg/Brahms Critical Tradition Reconsidered". Music Analysis 31(2):127–175. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2249.2012.00342.x.