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Die Jakobsleiter

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Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder) is an oratorio by Arnold Schoenberg that marks his transition from a contextual or free atonality to the twelve-tone technique anticipated in the oratorio's use of hexachords. [1]

18 relations: Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Arnold Schoenberg, Atonality, Bodo Igesz, Developing variation, Gertrud Schoenberg, Hexachord, Ian Partridge, Jacob's Ladder, Libretto, Mady Mesplé, Oratorio, Pierre Boulez, Rafael Kubelík, Santa Fe Opera, Siegmund Nimsgern, Twelve-tone technique, Winfried Zillig.

Anthony Rolfe Johnson

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (5 November 1940 – 21 July 2010) was an English operatic tenor.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter.

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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

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Bodo Igesz

Bodo Igesz (February 7, 1935 in Amsterdam – December 25, 2014 in New York City) was a Dutch stage director who had an active career staging operas around the world during the second half of the 20th century.

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Developing variation

In music composition, developing variation is a formal technique in which the concepts of development and variation are united in that variations are produced through the development of existing material.

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Gertrud Schoenberg

Gertrud Bertha Schoenberg (née Kolisch; 11 July 1898 – 14 February 1967) was the second wife of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, whom she married in 1924, and the sister of his pupil, the violinist Rudolf Kolisch.

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Hexachord

In music, a hexachord (also hexachordon) is a six-note series, as exhibited in a scale or tone row.

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Ian Partridge

Ian Partridge (born 12 June 1938) is a retired English lyric tenor, whose repertoire ranged from Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, the Elizabethan lute songs, German, French and English songs, through to Schoenberg, Weill and Britten, and on to contemporary works.

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Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder (סולם יעקב) is the connection between the earth and heaven that the biblical Patriarch Jacob dreams about during his flight from his brother Esau, as described in the Book of Genesis.

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Libretto

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Mady Mesplé

Mady Mesplé (born 7 March 1931) is a French opera singer, the leading high coloratura soprano of her generation in France, sometimes heralded as the successor to Mado Robin.

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Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.

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Pierre Boulez

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of institutions.

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Rafael Kubelík

Rafael Jeroným Kubelík (29 June 191411 August 1996) was a Czech-born conductor and composer.

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Santa Fe Opera

Santa Fe Opera (SFO) is an American opera company, located north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Siegmund Nimsgern

Siegmund Nimsgern (born 14 January 1940) is a German bass-baritone, born in Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany.

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Twelve-tone technique

Twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition devised by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) and associated with the "Second Viennese School" composers, who were the primary users of the technique in the first decades of its existence.

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Winfried Zillig

Winfried Zillig (1 April 1905 – 18 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, and conductor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Jakobsleiter

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