Dreimal tausend Jahre für gemischten Chor a cappella op. 50A (1949)
Sources

A Skizzen
Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien (MS 54, Archivnr. 683, 684, 685, 686)

3 lose Blätter Lichtpauspapier; alle drei sind abgeschnittene Teile von Originalblättern. Blatt 1 und 2 sind aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach durch Halbierung eines Originalblattes entstanden, von dem Blatt 1 die untere, Blatt 2 die obere Hälfte darstellt.

Holograph sketches.
Sketches written in pencil on four leaves of transparent paper.
Mfl. 683 measures 28 x 43.3 cm. and contains a four measure sketch of the beginning, which differs from the final version and a three measure sketch of the beginning with corrections. A piece measuring 4.9 x 20.3 cm. has been cut from the last stave. This piece is affixed to a piece of cardboard measuring 15.1 x 21.5 cm. and contains the tone row and its inversion at the fifth.
Mfl. 684 measures 28 x 43.3 cm. and contains two sketches of bars 1-2, a sketch of the tone row with six notes of its inversion at the fifth, 4 sketches for the second motivic section of the piece, and a full sketch of the tone row with its inversion at the fifth.
Mfl. 685-686 measures 28 x 43.3 cm. and contains sketches on both the recto and verso. The recto contains three sketches of early versions of the beginning, a sketch of an unused hexachord for this work, and 7 sketches of various unidentified tone rows. The verso contains sketches of bar 13 and a draft of a melody based on the row.
Tone row sketches on one leaf measuring 12.7 x 20.3 cm. The leaf contains the basic row paired with its inversion at the fifth. There is also a transposition of the second hexachord of the basic row, down a fourth. There are sketches of letters along with other doodles on the leaf. There is one doodle on the verso.

Reihe 1
Reihe 2

B Transparentreinschrift
Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien (MS 54, Archivnr. 681_a, 681_b, 681a_a, 681a_b, 682_a, 682_b)

3 los Blätter Lichtpauspapier. Nur Vorderseite (Kohlepapierabdruck auf der Rückseite) mit Bleistift beschrieben, Ergänzungen mit schwarzer Tinte. Durchlaufende Taktnumerierung von 1 bis 24, T. 13 ist mit 12a numeriert, in T. 25 fehlt die Taktzahl; Blatt 3 in der Mitte, d.h. am Ende des Notentextes, Vermerk: Copyright 1949 / by / Arnold Schoenberg / April 20, 1949.

Holograph fair copy.
The score is written in pencil on three leaves of transparent paper with 12 staves. Bar 13 is numbered '12a'. The final measure is inscribed 'copyright 1949 by Arnold Schoenberg/April 20, 1949'.

C Originaldruck in der schwedischen Zeitschrift PRISMA Nr. 4 1949 (Stockholm 1949)

(Arnold Schönberg: Sämtliche Werke, Abteilung V: Chorwerke. Reihe B, Band 19. Chorwerke II, Kritischer Bericht, Skizzen, Fragment, hrsg. v. Christian Martin Schmidt, Mainz-Wien 1977, p. 94-95).