Musical idea and symmetrical ideal -- Suite for Piano Op. 25: varieties of idea in Schoenberg's earliest twelve-tone music -- Woodwing Quintet Op. 26: the twelve-tone idea reanimates a large musical form -- Three Satires Op. 28. no. 3: the earliest example of the "symmetrical ideal" in a (more or less) completely combinatorial context -- Piano Piece Op. 33a: the "symmetrical ideal: conflicts with and is reconciled to row order -- Fourth String Quartet Op. 37, movement I: two motives give rise to contrasting row forms, meters, textures, and tonalities (and are reconciled) within a large sonata form -- Moses und Aron: an incomplete musical idea represents an unresolved conflict between using word and image to communicate God -- String Trio Op. 45: a musical idea and a near-death experience are expressed as a conflict between alternative row forms.
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