Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg

Name: Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg
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ISBN: 9780521870498

ISBN-10: 0521870496

ISBN-13: 9780521870498

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jennifer Shaw, Joseph Auner

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Arnold Schoenberg is one of the most important and controversial figures in 20th-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles.

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/13/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.97" wide x 10.00" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Notes on contributors


Acknowledgements


Chronology of Schoenberg's life and works



Introduction




Schoenberg's early years



Schoenberg's lieder




Schoenberg and the tradition of chamber music for strings




Two early Schoenberg songs: monotonality, multitonality, and schwebende Tonalitï¿½t




Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Strauss




Schoenberg, modernism, and modernity



Interpreting Erwartung: collaborative process and early reception




The rise and fall of radical athematicism




Schoenberg, modernism, and metaphysics




Pierrot lunaire: persona, voice, and the fabric of allusion




Schoenberg between the World Wars



Schoenberg as teacher




Schoenberg, satire, and the Zeitoper




Schoenberg's row tables: temporality and the idea




Immanence and transcendence in Moses und Aron




Schoenberg, the Viennese-Jewish experience and its aftermath




Schoenberg's American years



Cadence after thirty-three years: Schoenberg's Second Chamber Symphony, Op. 38




Schoenberg's collaborations




Listening to Schoenberg's Piano Concerto




Schoenberg reception in America, 1933-51




Schoenberg: dead or alive? His reception among the postwar European avant-garde



Notes


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Index