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The conductor must compare no fewer than five texts: the original 1912 score; the two-piano arrangement, by Webern, dated 1913; the reduction for chamber ensemble, by Schoenberg and Felix Greissle, of the first, second, fourth, and fifth pieces; the "new, revised" full orchestral score dated 1922; and the "new edition for normal orchestra" dated 1949 but published in 1952.
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danse sacrale, string trio, duo concertant, serial texture, first hexachord, tonal functionality, referential collection, rental score, octatonic scale, second hexachord, serial unit, octatonic collection, twelve pitch classes, viola melody, referential order, pitch content, tone center, interval content, pitch elements, pitch repetition, choral speech, concert suite, retrograde inversion, diminished seventh chord
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Igor Stravinsky, Requiem Canticles, New York, The Rite of Spring, The Flood, Five Pieces, Symphony of Psalms, Robert Craft, Three Movements, Samuel Dushkin, Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Festival Singers of Toronto, Danse Russe, Das Obligate Rezitativ, Piano Concerto, Canticum Sacrum, Gregg Smith Singers, The Rake's Progress, Dieses Volk, Small Orchestra, Donald Gramm, Suite Italienne, Three Little Songs, Les Noces, Hanns Eisler
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