What a Lied of Schoenberg can teach us about a Sonata of Santoro?

Authors

  • Rodolfo Coelho de Souza Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/rm.v21i2.193558

Keywords:

Twelve-tone music, Serial analysis, Atonalism, Schoenberg's songs, Santoro's sonatas

Abstract

The analysis of Arnold Schoenberg’s song Sommermüg Op.48 N.1 show us that the dodecaphonic techniques employed by the composer, in a period when the method had already reached its maturity, exhibit a larger variety of compositional strategies than textbooks teach us. The segmentation of the series in pitch sets with complementary functions of melodic counterpoint and of harmonic support is one of them. His search for symmetrical constructions is another concern to which we use to give less attention than the composer had whished.

The analysis of Schoenberg’s music allowed us the revisit Claudio Santoro’s Sonata 1942 for piano, one of the pioneer Brazilian pieces of music in the dodecaphonic style. The detailed exam of the technique of the work reveals a young composer already with complete control of the dodecaphonic method, what lead us to guess the motives that induced our musicology to charge him with lack of knowledge and disregard for the style’s orthodoxy.

We concluded that, among other reasons, this unfair critique was motivated by an academic preference for the style of Webern, an author who, at that moment, could not have been used by Santoro as a model.

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Author Biography

  • Rodolfo Coelho de Souza, Universidade de São Paulo

    É professor titular do Departamento de Música da FFCLRP da Universidade de São Paulo, onde ensina teoria da música e análise, composição e tecnologia da música. É doutor pela University of Texas at Austine mestre pela ECA-USP. Foi editor da revista Musica Theorica; e atualmente é presidente da TeMA - Associação Brasileira de Teoria e Análise Musical. Sua pesquisa foca-se principalmente na música de compositores brasileiros dos séculos XX e XIX.

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Published

2021-12-17

How to Cite

What a Lied of Schoenberg can teach us about a Sonata of Santoro?. (2021). Revista Música, 21(2), 253-286. https://doi.org/10.11606/rm.v21i2.193558