This text contains Arnold Schoenberg's thoughts on classical and romantic harmony. It presents a resume of the principles of the Theory of Harmony, then demonstrates the concept of monotonality. The music examples range from the entire development sections of classical symphonies. Ninety integrated music examples range fromthe entire development sections of classical symphonies to analyses of the harmonic progressions of Strauss, Debussy, Reger and his own early music.

A reissue of a classic that represents the culmination of over 40 years in Schoenberg's life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America. For his classes, he developed a manner of presentation in which every technical matter is discussed in a very fundamental way, so that at the same time it is both simple and thorough. This book can be used for analysis as well as for composition. On the one hand, it has the practical objective of introducing students to the process of composing in a systematic way, from the smallest to the largest forms; on...