Footnotes

¹ Schenker’s diary for October 25 records: “Brief v. Hans Weisse mit Beilagen: Schönbergs Notizchen über Wiederholungen.“ (“Letter from Hans Weisse with enclosures: Schoenberg's short article about repetitions.”). The “Notizchen” was an article by Schoenberg, of which a manuscript copy exists dated October 10, 1913, under the title "Warum neue Melodien schwerverständlich sind" (“Why New Melodies are Difficult to Understand”), which was published in the magazine, Die Kunstwoche, reportedly in 1914, but possibly in October 1913, where Weisse encountered it. Schenker reacted to it (“a 30-line conglomeration of sentences”) in a vitriolic footnote in his Erläuterungsausgabe of Op. 111, p. 94 (which Schoenberg did not come across until 1939, when he penned an unpublished rejoinder). Schoenberg’s article indirectly asserts the superiority of motive development over repetition, the principle of which in the classical repertory Schenker had asserted in his Harmonielehre (1906). See Bryan R. Simms, "New Documents in the Schoenberg–Schenker Polemic," Perspectives in New Music, 16/1 (Fall/Winter 1977), esp. pp. 113–24. See also Joseph Auner, ed., A Schoenberg Reader: Documents of a Life (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003), item 3.11, pp. 122–23.

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