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Filipp Herschkowitz: Mahler and Memories of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Extract

It is impossible to speak of any composer's harmony, syntax and form without exploring their close linkage. However, on the other hand, it is impossible to understand this close linkage without examining harmony, syntax and form separately.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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References

1 Brodyachiye, ‘wandering, vagrant’. Herschkowitz is clearly using the Schoenbergian terminology, usually rendered as ‘roving’ in his English theoretical texts. Cf. Structural Functions of Harmony (London: Williams & Norgate, 1954), p.3 Google ScholarPubMed: ‘Roving harmony is often to be observed in modulatory sections… evidently in [this kind of harmony] no succession of three chords can unmistakably express a region or a tonality’.

* O Muzikye, p.324.

O Muzikye, pp.343–345. The letter was written in the first half of the 1980s.

2 Herschkowitz was born in the Romanian town of Iasi (Yassy) and studied at the conservatory there. After escaping the Anschluss – with a handwritten diploma from Webern – he had been teaching in Chernovitsy, which had been annexed to the USSR.