\version "2.6.1" atonicKey = #(def-music-function (parser location) () #{ #(ly:export (make-music 'EventChord 'origin $location 'elements (list (make-music 'KeyChangeEvent 'tonic (ly:make-pitch -1 4 0) 'pitch-alist '((5 . 1) (6 . 1) (0 . 1) (1 . 1) (2 . 1) (3 . 1) (4 . 1)))))) \set Score . extraNatural = ##f \override Score . KeySignature #'print-function = ##f #}) \paper { #(set-paper-size "a5") firstpagenumber = 1 printfirstpagenumber = ##t betweensystempadding = 8.5\mm indent = 0\mm } \score { \context PianoStaff << \context Staff = upper { \atonicKey \transpose c c' { \time 6/8 \override Score.Hairpin #'height = #'0.5 \set Score.allowBeamBreak = ##t % Add bar numbers 5th bar \set Score.barNumberVisibility = #(every-nth-bar-number-visible 5) %11 \set Score.currentBarNumber = #11 << { e'4 _\markup { " " \translate #(cons -2.75 -0.0) \dynamic "sf" } } \\ { \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(-0.625 . 0.3125) d'16[( as) es-. \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(-0.625 . 0.0) ges-.] } >> r8 r16 ^>( c b,) r << { ges s s } \\ { es[( as,^.) \change Staff = lower \stemUp d,] } >> s4 \stemUp 4. \f | } } \context Staff = lower { \atonicKey \time 6/8 \clef F \override Accidental #'inside-slur = ##t %11 << { \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(0.5 . 0.0) r16 ces^.^^ bes,^.^^\noBeam r s } \\ { \once \override Hairpin #'extra-offset = #'(0.0 . -0.5) es,16[( \< f]) \! des,8.[ c16] } >> \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(-0.5 . 0.0) \override DynamicText #'extra-offset = #'(-2.25 . 3) \stemDown g,,_. \f fis,_. r \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(0.125 . 0.0) e'_>( -.)_( \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(-0.625 . 0.0) g,_.) | \break \revert Script #'extra-offset \revert DynamicText #'extra-offset << { \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(0.625 . 0.0) \set subdivideBeams = ##t \override Slur #'slur-details = #'((region-size . 4) (head-encompass-penalty . 1000.0) (stem-encompass-penalty . 30.0) (closeness-factor . 10) (edge-attraction-factor . 400000) (same-slope-penalty . 20) (steeper-slope-factor . 50) (non-horizontal-penalty . 15) (max-slope . 1.1) (max-slope-factor . 10) (free-head-distance . 0.3) (free-slur-distance . 0.8) (extra-object-collision . 50) (accidental-collision . 3) (extra-encompass-free-distance . 0.3) (head-slur-distance-max-ratio . 3) (head-slur-distance-factor . 10) (absolute-closeness-measure . 0.3) (edge-slope-exponent . 1.7) ) % edge-attraction-factor increased \override Slur #'excentricity = #1.0 s8 \once \override Stem #'transparent = ##t c16( bes32[ \change Staff = upper a' \change Staff = lower bes \change Staff = upper a') \change Staff = lower bes^. \change Staff = upper a'^.] } \\ { \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(-0.625 . 0.0) r16 bes,,_( _.) bes s8 } >> \clef G r << { \once \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(0.625 . -0.5) 8-. \once \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(0.5 . -0.25) -. | } \\ { \override Script #'extra-offset = #'(-0.5 . 0.25) c'16\rest \f es' d' f' | } >> } >> \layout { \context { \PianoStaff \accepts Dynamics \override VerticalAlignment #'forced-distance = #13.5 } } } %{ Schoenberg modeled his Suite after the Keyboard Suites of Bach in that his atonal Twelve-Note System was meant to be a return to polyphony. Most of the movements were named after the dance movements of a Baroque suite, although they resembled such only in tempo and character. In the Twelve-Tone System, both melodies and chords are formed by an arrangement of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale in a particuliar order, called a tone-row, which may be transposed, inverted, reversed, or reversed and inverted. Schoenberg used the method much less rigidly in his later works than he does here. [exerpted from 'The New College Encyclopedia of Music'] It is clear to me that the composer respected Bach and was trying to reach back in time toward a polyphonic era, by-passing the Classical period and at the same time reaching forward to a new music. He must have been bored by the sameness of melody and harmony in most of the late Romantic Music. I am not trying to characterize any music myself, but only to suggest what may have been the impetus for this music. SCM %}