Schoenberg's musical imagination Michael Cherlin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cherlin, Michael

Series:

Music in the twentieth century

Music in the 20th century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951--Criticism and interpretation.

Schoenberg, Arnold.

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press ©2007

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No composer was more responsible for changes in the landscape of twentieth century music than Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), and no other composer's music inspired a commensurate quantity and quality of technical description. Yet there is still little understanding of the correlations between Schoenberg's musical thought and larger questions of cultural significance in and since his time: the formalistic descriptions of music theory do not generally engage larger questions in the history of ideas, and scholars without an understanding of the formidable musical technique are ill-equipped to understand the music Schoenberg's Musical Imagination is intended to connect Schoenberg's music and critical writings to a larger world of ideas. While most technical studies of Schoenberg's music are limited to a single compositional period, this book traces changes in his attitudes as a composer, and their impact on his ever-changing compositional style over the course of this remarkable career

Contents:

A passing of worlds: Gurrelieder as Schoenberg's reluctant farewell to the nineteenth century

Dialectical opposition in Schoenberg's music and thought

Dramatic conflict in Pelleas und Melisande

Motive and memory in Schoenberg's First string quartet

Uncanny expressions of time in the music of Arnold Schoenberg

The tone row as the source of dramatic conflict in Moses und Aron

The String trio : metaleptic Schoenberg

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-389) and indexes

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Cherlin, Michael. Schoenberg's musical imagination

ISBN:

9780511481987

0511481985

0511289677

9780511289675

9780511290275

0511290276

9786610917082

6610917086

9780521108348

0521108349

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9781107176119

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9781280917080

0511322232

9780511322235

OCLC:

422727877

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