Open AccessInterval Symmetries as Divine Perfection in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron
Author(s) -
Jack Boss
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
konturen
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1947-3796
DOI - 10.5399/uo/konturen.5.0.3251
Subject(s) - perfection , opera , opposition (politics) , philosophy , literature , tone (literature) , theology , art , law , politics , political science
Beginning with an analysis of certain tone-row partitions in
Schoenberg's opera Moses and Aaron, this article examines the ways in which the composer dramatized the conflict between the two Biblical brothers by setting leitmotifs in opposition, conveying the tension (between the visual and verbal portrayal of God) in terms of an abstract, symmetrical system.