Schoenberg and redemption / Julie Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Julie (Julie A.), 1963- author.

Series:

New perspectives in music history and criticism.

New perspectives in music history and criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Schoenberg, Arnold.

Redemption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Schoenberg & Redemption

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Schoenberg and Redemption presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his threshold and early atonal works, as well as his theoretical writings and a range of previously unexplored archival documents, Julie Brown argues that Schoenberg's revolutionary step was in part a response to Wagner's negative charges concerning the Jewish influence on German music. In 1898 and especially 1908 Schoenberg's Jewish identity came into confrontation with his commitment to Wagnerian modernism to provide an impetus to his radical innovations. While acknowledging the broader turn-of-the-century Viennese context, Brown draws special attention to continuities between Schoenberg's work and that of Viennese moral philosopher Otto Weininger, himself an ideological Wagnerian. She also considers the afterlife of the composer's ideological position when, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the concept of redeeming German culture of its Jewish elements took a very different turn.

Contents:

Schoenberg, history, trauma?

Schoenberg as Christ

Otto Weininger, Richard Wagner, and musical discourse in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Schoenberg and Wagnerian Deutschtum

Compositional innovation and the redemption of Ahasuerus

Woman and the symbolism of self-redemption

Rereading Schoenberg's musical idea

Coda : changing history into memory.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-72207-5

1-139-94891-1

1-139-94996-9

1-139-96162-4

1-139-96057-1

1-139-95632-9

1-139-04893-7

1-139-95845-3

1-139-95739-2

1-139-95950-6