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FLOWERS OF LIGHT

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Puccini's 'I crisantemi' as a
pedagogical tool for piano performance majors,
by HEIDI LOWY

 

One might say that the process of transcribing is similar to painting by numbers. We are given the paint, the brush, and the designated areas to fill in. All that we have to do is to stay within the lines. While it would appear that transcribing a string quartet for piano solo simply requires the vertical stacking of four voices as the ultimate goal, I believe that this is only the beginning.

In Style and Idea, Schoenberg cautions:

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Copyright © 29 June 2010 Heidi Lowy,
New Jersey, USA

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Bibliography

Frisch, Walter. 1993. The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Leibowitz, Rene. 1979. Schoenberg & His School. The Contemporary Stage of the Language of Music, translated by Dika Newlin, 300-305. New York: DaCapo Press Paperback. Originally published in 1949.

Lowy, Heidi. 2002. Piano transcription of I crisantemi. Unpublished.

Puccini, Giacomo. 1987. Crisantemi (1889) per Quartetto d'Archi. Revised and edited by Pietro Spada. Roma: Boccaccini & Spada Editori.

Schnabel, Artur. 1942. The Line of Most Resistance, 72-73. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Reprint by DaCapo Press, 1969.

Schoenberg, Arnold. 1969. Structural Functions of Harmony, xvi. Revised edition with corrections. Edited by Leonard Stein. New York: Norton.

Schoenberg, Arnold. 1975. Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg. 348-350. Edited by Leonard Stein with translations by Leo Black. New York: St Martins Press. Paperback Reprint, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. 1982. Tomorrow's Eve. Translated by Robert Martin Adams. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Wuorinen, Charles. 1979. Simple Composition, 35-40. New York and London: Longman Music Series.

GIACOMO PUCCINI

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

PIANO

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