"Music of my future" : the Schoenberg quartets and Trio / edited by Reinhold Brinkmann & Christoph Wolff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brinkmann, Reinhold, 1934-2010.

Wolff, Christoph.

Lewin, David, 1933-2003.

Series:

Isham Library papers ; 5.

Harvard publications in music ; 20.

Harvard publications in music ; 20

Isham Library papers ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951. Quartets--violins (2), viola, cello.

Schoenberg, Arnold.

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951. Trio--violin, viola, cello--op. 45.

Chamber music--History and criticism.

Chamber music.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

x, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Dept. of Music : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Schoenberg's quartets and trio, composed over a nearly forty-year period, occupy a central position among twentieth-century chamber music. This volume, based on papers presented at a conference in honor of David Lewin, collects a wide range of approaches to Schoenberg's pieces. The first part of the book provides a historical context to these works, examining Viennese quartet culture and traditions, Webern's reception of Schoenberg's Second Quartet, Schoenberg's view of the Beethoven quartets, and the early reception of Schoenberg's First Quartet. The second part examines musical issues of motive, text setting, meter, imitative counterpoint, and closure within Schoenberg's quartets and trio.

Contents:

Schoenberg's quartets and the Viennese tradition / Reinhold Brinkmann

Schoenberg, Kolisch, and the continuity of Viennese quartet culture / Christoph Wolff

Form, innovation, modernism : early responses to Schoenberg's First quartet / Karen Painter

On Schoenberg's view of the Beethoven quartets / Lewis Lockwood

Motive and memory in Schoenberg's First quartet / Michael Cherlin

"Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten" : Schoenberg reads George / Judith Ryan

Metric conflict as an agent of formal design in the first movement of Schoenberg's Quartet opus 30 / Jeff Nichols

Schoenberg and the tradition of imitative counterpoint : remarks on the third and fourth quartets and the Trio / Stephen Peles

Moments of closure : thoughts on the suspension of tonality in Schoenberg's Fourth quartet and Trio / Richard Kurth

The Schoenberg trio : tradition at an apocalyptic moment / Martin Boykan.

Notes:

Papers presented at a symposium held in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Harvard Music Dept., Feb. 26-27, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

096403171X

OCLC:

45387096