Schoenberg's musical imagination / Michael Cherlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cherlin, Michael, author.

Series:

Music in the twentieth century ; 24.

Music in the twentieth century ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Schoenberg, Arnold.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 397 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : 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 in the second half of the twentieth century. 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 understanding of the formidable musical technique are ill-equipped to understand the music with any profundity of thought. 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 his 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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [384]-389) and indexes.

Other Format:

Print version: Cherlin, Michael. Schoenberg's musical imagination.

ISBN:

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1-107-17611-5

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