“Five Pieces for Orchestra”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The Five Pieces further develop the notion of "total chromaticism" that Schoenberg introduced in his Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 (composed earlier that year) and were composed during a time of intense personal and artistic crisis for the composer, this being reflected in the tensions and, at times, extreme violence of the score, mirroring the expressionist movement of the time, in particular its preoccupation with the subconscious and burgeoning madness.

The work had its world premiere in London at a Promenade Concert on 3 September 1912, conducted by Henry Wood.^[1]^[2]

At Wood's suggestion, Schoenberg's British pupil and friend Edward Clark (later to become a renowned BBC music producer and conductor) invited the composer to make his British conducting debut with this work at the Queen's Hall, and on 17 January 1914 he conducted it at the same venue.^[3]^[4]^[5] This was attended by Gustav Holst, who obtained a copy of the score, the only Schoenberg score he ever owned. Echoes of the work appear in The Planets (originally titled Seven Pieces for Large Orchestra), and in the opening of his ballet The Lure (1921), which closely resembles the third of Schoenberg's Five Pieces.^[6]

Instrumentation

The work exists in two different scorings: the original 1909 version for a very large orchestra and the revised version of 1949 which reduces the size of the orchestra to more-or-less normal proportions, "giving up the contrabass clarinet, as well as the four-fold scoring of the other woodwinds and two of the six horns".{{ref|7}} This version was published posthumously in 1952.

Original 1909 Version

Revised 1949 Version

Third movement

According to Robert Erickson, "harmonic and melodic motion is curtailed, in order to focus attention on timbral and textural elements."{{ref|1}} Blair Johnston claims that this movement is actually titled "Chord-Colors", that Schoenberg "removes all traditional motivic associations" from this piece, that it is generated from a single harmony: C-G{{music|sharp}}-B-E-A (the Farben chord, shown below), found in a number of chromatically altered derivatives, and is scored for "a kaleidoscopically rotating array of instrumental colors".{{ref|3}}

Whether or not this was an early example of what Schoenberg later called Klangfarbenmelodie (in his 1911 book Harmonielehre of) is a matter of dispute. One scholar holds that Schoenberg's "now-famous statements about 'Klangfarbenmelodie' are, however, reflections, which have no direct connection to the Orchestra Piece op. 16, no. 3".{{ref|4}} An attempt to refute this view was published in the same journal issue.{{ref|5}}

Schoenberg explains in a note added to the 1949 revision of the score, "The conductor need not try to polish sounds which seem unbalanced, but watch that every instrumentalist plays accurately the prescribed dynamic, according to the nature of his instrument. There are no motives in this piece which have to be brought to the fore".{{ref|6}}

Recordings

References

1. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/five-pieces-for-orchestra-op-16-arnold-schoenberg |title=LA Phil |access-date=2013-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121208080234/http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/five-pieces-for-orchestra-op-16-arnold-schoenberg |archive-date=2012-12-08 |dead-url=yes |df= }}
2. ^[https://archive.is/20130219110500/http://www.schoenberg.at/library/index.php/publications/show/6183 Edward Clark, "IV. Successes in Berlin, Involuntary Pilgrimage of Arnold Schoenberg", The Listener (17 January 1952): 107.]
3. ^Anon., "Herr Schönberg in London. His Theory and His Practice", Daily News Leader (January 17, 1914), quoted in full on the Arnold Schoenberg Centre website (accessed 29 October 2013).
4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=wo4LhjGd-c4C&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=edward+clark+schoenberg&source=bl&ots=QiyjCnfRPT&sig=TxCP-0cN1hG86dsaiLr7tQLzsfQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Xh8JUYfnAu2cmQWPyoG4DQ&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=edward%20clark%20schoenberg&f=false Alison Garnham, Hans Keller and the BBC: The Musical Conscience of British Broadcasting, 1959–79.]
5. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=CVCtkShvDSkC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=Peter+Eckersley+edward+clark&source=bl&ots=G54LQFEhBQ&sig=3Hc2HGDA3blOjFRYYyTvdOH-EoM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eSsKUfW0CKaLmwX28YD4Dg&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=clark&f=false Jennifer Doctor, The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes]
6. ^David Lambourn, "Henry Wood and Schoenberg", The Musical Times, Vol. 128, No. 1734 (August 1987), pp. 422–27{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.