 New seats!!  Hand in research findings/thematic leanings  TSAR Chapters Discussion  Schoenberg and the 1913 Armory Show  Prufrock  Research Rubric

 5 minutes to discuss notes/questions with a partner  3 minutes to discuss notes/questions with a different partner. Meet your (potentially) new neighbors.  2 minutes - pg. 99 analysis reflection

Schoenberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, is among the major landmarks of 20th century musical thought; at least three generations of composers in the European and American traditions have consciously extended his thinking or, in some cases, passionately reacted against it. During the rise of the Nazi Party in Austria, his music was labeled, alongside jazz, as degenerate art.Nazi Partyjazzdegenerate art Schoenberg was widely known early in his career for his success in simultaneously extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic styles of Brahms and Wagner. Later, his name would come to personify pioneering innovations in atonality that would become the most polemical feature of 20th-century art music. In the 1920s, Schoenberg developed the twelve-tone technique, a widely influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale. He also coined the term developing variation, and was the first modern composer to embrace ways of developing motifs without resorting to the dominance of a centralized melodic idea. RomanticBrahmsWagneratonalitytwelve-tone techniqueserieschromatic scaledeveloping variationmotifs  Source: Retrieved 3/7/2011http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg

 Chapters  Beginning TSAR Research Question

1. Identify possible themes 2. Form a research question 3. Identify two relevant critical commentaries 4. Read and take notes, identify key passages that illustrate the author’s argument.

 Read Ch. 13  Bring: 1. Themes – as many as you can 2. Research Questions – 2-3