Der Tonwille, Heft 7 (= Jahrgang IV, Heft 1) (Jan/March 1924)
The Will of the Tone, issue 7 (= Year IV, issue 1) (Jan/March 1924)
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The seventh issue of Schenker's periodical Der Tonwille (1921–24), which was the first in the new quarterly format, the first issue of Year IV, bearing the publisher's imprint "Tonwille-Verlag."
Contents
Issue 7 (= Year IV, issue 1), 44 pages in length, has as its centerpiece an extended analysis of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 ("Appassionata") spanning 31 pages, with an Urlinie-Tafel as a fold-out sheet at the back, and highly elaborated graphs within the analysis of each movement. The work is one that Schenker had many of his pupils study, and in this analysis a third of the space is devoted to matters of performance; the foregrounding of performance issues is also a feature of Schenker’s next essay on a work for piano, the Brahms Handel Variations, in Tonwille 8/9.
Two short articles follow this, one concerning a Bach recitative, which is a study of voice-leading and reaching-over in a highly chromatic environment, the other concerning a single thirty-second note in a Beethoven string quartet, the pitch of which Beethoven clarified in a letter. This is Schenker's only essay on a string quartet, and has aroused much interest as a perceptive reading of a major composer analyzing his own music – in itself a rarity. The "Miscellanea" that follow, the shortest of all the miscellanies (though all the later ones are markedly shorter than those of issues 1–5), is linked to the last item, in that of the five letters that it quotes four are by Beethoven.
Publication History
[to be completed]
Contents List
- "Beethoven: Sonate Opus 57" [Beethoven's Sonata [in F minor], Op. 57], 3–33 [II, pp. 41–64]
- "J. Seb. Bach: Matthäuspassion Recitativ: 'Erbarm es Gott'" [J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Recitative "Have mercy, O God"], 34–38 [II, pp. 65–68]
- "Beethoven zu seinem opus 127" [Beethoven on his Quartet [in E-flat major], Op. 127], 39–41 [II, pp. 69–71]
- "Vermischtes" [Miscellanea], 42–43 [II, pp. 72–74]
- Enclosure: single-sided Urlinie sheet of the three movements of Beethoven Op. 57
- Advertisements (at back):
- "'Neue Musikalischen Theorien und Phantasien' /'Ein Beitrag zur Ornamentik' / 'Beethovens IX. Sinfonie' / 'A. Niloffs (H. Schenker) Instrumententabelle' / 'Beethovens V. Sinfonie' (p. 44)"
- "Beethoven-Schenker: Klavier-Sonaten" (cover)
Bibliography
- Jonas, Oswald, "A Lesson with Beethoven by Correspondence," Musical Quarterly, 38 (1952), 215-221
- Drabkin, William, "Think of a Letter, "The Musical Times, 139 (1998), 39-46
Contributor:
- Ian Bent