Plurarity of of analytical approaches: The first of the Three Piano Pieces op.11, by Arnold Schoenberg

Abstract

The focus of the present article is the multiplicity of perspectives taken into account for musical analysis, which was here applied to a special case: the first of the Three Piano Pieces op.11, by Arnold Schoenberg. The choice of this particular example was based on the existence of a rich panel of analytical approaches of this piece, not only in number, but also regarding focus, strategy and results. The methodology of this study consists on the description of six of those approaches, elaborated by well-known authors over a period of four decades (Perle, 1962; Wittlich, 1974; Ogdon, 1981; Haimo, 1996 e Lerdahl, 2001), and in the presentation of their main mutual  convergences and divergences, under the light of some established  comparative parameters