Table of Contents
Abbreviations of Texts
Preface: On the History of Models for Beginners in Composition
Editorial Notes
Commentary
Models for Beginners in Composition
Editor's Preface to the 1972 Edition
Schoenberg's Preface to the 1943 Edition
Syllabus
Musical Examples:
I. Coordination of Melody and Harmony
II. Motive and Motival Features in Two-Measure Phrases
III. Sentences
IV. Periods
V. Contrasting Middle Section
VI. Recapitulation (a')
VII. Minuet
VIII. Scherzo
IX. Phrases, Half Sentences, Antecedents, and "a"
Sections of Ternary Forms
Glossary

Appendices
Appendix 1: Manuscript Sources for Models for Beginners in Composition
Appendix 2: Schoenberg's Teaching Schedule at UCLA
Appendix 3: Assignments from Schoenberg's Beginning Composition Class
Appendix 4: Key to Schoenberg's Symbols and Abbreviations
Appendix 5: Primer in Regions
Appendix 6: Primer in Transformations
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Gordon Root is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York in Fredonia, where he has taught since 2006. He earned a Ph.D. in Music Theory with a focus on Schoenberg's music from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Gordon Root's essays have been featured in Indiana Theory Review and Current Musicology. He has presented many papers on a range of topics including text and music, Schoenberg's pedagogy and harmonic theories, and programmatic
aspects of Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone works. In 2009 he was awarded an Avenir Grant through the Arnold Schönberg Center and The Avenir Foundation of Wheat Ridge Colorado.

Reviews

"The present volume is part of the ambitious 'Schoenberg in Words' series, which aims to reissue some of Schoenberg's published works on music theory and also his correspondence. If this updated edition of Models for Beginners in Composition (which Schoenberg published in 1943) is representative, the series sets a very high standard for bibliographic history in music theory. The volume includes the text of the original work, along with prefaces to the
original edition (by Schoenberg) and the 1972 edition (by editor Leonard Stein). But a large part of the book is taken up with exhaustive commentary by Root (SUNY, Fredonia) and appendixes with welcome
supplementary documents. This edition of Schoenberg's classic work will interest novice and expert alike."--Choice