Chamber Symphony No. 1 op. 9 荀贝格 室内交响曲 总谱 环球版

在这里，四度音程从一种完全不同的表现冲动中产生，将自己塑造成一个明确的号角主题，以建筑学的方式铺展在整首乐曲中，并在所有发生的事情上打上自己的印记。因此，它们在这里并不只是作为旋律或纯粹的印象派和弦效果出现；它们的特性渗透到整个和声结构中，它们是与其他和弦一样的和弦。(阿诺德-勋伯格，《和声理论》，1911 年）

作曲家: Schoenberg, Arnold
乐器: for 15 solo instruments
出版社: Universal Edition
原文简介:
Here the fourths, springing from an entirely different expressive urge, shape themselves into a defi nite horn theme, spread themselves out architectonically over the whole piece, and place their stamp on everything that happens. Thus it turns out that they do not appear here merely as melody or as a purely impressionistic chord effect; their character permeates the total harmonic structure, and they are chords like all others.' (Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony, 1911)

The Chamber Symphony Op.9 heralded a breakthrough in Schoenberg's compositional style. While the work did not go hand in hand with the complete destruction of the old tonal system it does show an extension in chordal and melodic constructions. It's focus on the interval of the fourth rather than the third is stated right at the start with the horn fanfare and this leads into the use of the whole tone scale soon after. These two elements open up a new sound space which he would explore further in the works to follow. Certainly not a work to be missing from any library where contemporary music is one of the main focuses.