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Arnold Schoenberg Letters

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Arnold Schoenberg Letters

By: Arnold Schoenberg

Background notes about each stage of his life and career, accompany Schoenberg's letters to artists, intellectuals, and fellow composers

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Univ of California Press

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0520060091

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9780520060098

A Schoenberg Reader

Documents of a Life

By: Joseph Auner

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Arnold Schoenberg’s close involvement with many of the principal developments of twentieth-century music, most importantly the break with tonality and the creation of twelve-tone composition, generated controversy from the time of his earliest works to the present day. This authoritative new collection of Schoenberg’s essays, letters, literary writings, musical sketches, paintings, and drawings offers fresh insights into the composer’s life, work, and thought. The documents, many previously unpublished or untranslated, reveal the relationships between various aspects of Schoenberg’s activities in composition, music theory, criticism, painting, performance, and teaching. They also show the significance of events in his personal and family life, his evolving Jewish identity, his political concerns, and his close interactions with such figures as Gustav and Alma Mahler, Alban Berg, Wassily Kandinsky, and Thomas Mann. Extensive commentary by Joseph Auner places the documents and materials in context and traces important themes throughout Schoenberg’s career from turn-of-century Vienna to Weimar Berlin to nineteen-fifties Los Angeles.

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474

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Yale University Press

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030012712X

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9780300127126

Style and Idea

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Style and Idea

By: Arnold Schoenberg

In these enlightening essays, the Austrian composer and music theorist presents his vision of how music speaks to us and what it is capable of saying. This book is full of essays which Arnold Schoenberg wrote on style and idea. He talks about the relationship to the text, new and outmoded music, composition in twelve tones, entertaining through composing, the relationship of heart and mind in music, evaluation of music, and other essays.

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Open Road Media

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1497675898

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9781497675896

Style and Idea

Selected Writings

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Style and Idea

Selected Writings

By: Arnold Schoenberg

One of the most influential collections of music ever published, Style and Idea includes Schoenberg's writings about himself and his music as well as studies of many other composers and reflections on art and society. An interpretive essay by Joseph Auner, Chair and Professor of Music at Tufts University, augments this anniversary edition.

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Univ of California Press

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0520266072

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9780520266070

Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition

By: Arnold Schoenberg

Models for Beginners in Composition (1943) represents one of Arnold Schoenberg's earliest attempts to reach a broad American audience through his pedagogical ideas. In this newly revised edition, Gordon Root incorporates many of Schoenberg's corrections to the original manuscript. Significant commentary also traces Schoenberg's development of the two-measure phrase as the main component of his pedagogical method.

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Oxford University Press

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0195382218

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Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler

By: Arnold Schoenberg,Alma Mahler

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Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler

By: Arnold Schoenberg,Alma Mahler

Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship spanning a half century (1903-1951) and two continents.

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0195381963

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Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses

By: Arnold Schoenberg

Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses is a comprehensive study of the composer's writings about his own music. The texts include program notes, letters, sketch materials, pre-concert talks, public lectures, scholarly writings, newspaper articles, interviews, pedagogical materials, publicity fliers, radio broadcasts, and liner notes.

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Oxford University Press

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0195385578

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Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers

By: Arnold Schoenberg

The volume is the first edition of all known and available letters between Arnold Schoenberg and over seventy American composers, written between 1915 and 1951 in English and English translation and with commentary. It includes numerous unknown letters and casts new light on Schoenberg's American years, his American composers colleagues and his life and works in the United States. The book qualifies the concept of, and Schoenberg's association with, the Second Viennese School and reveals hitherto unknown aspects of Schoenberg's biography.

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0195383575

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Arnold Schoenberg Correspondence

A Collection of Translated and Annotated Letters Exchanged with Guido Adler, Pablo Casals, Emanuel Feuermann, and Olin Downes

By: Arnold Schoenberg,Egbert M. Ennulat

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Arnold Schoenberg Correspondence

A Collection of Translated and Annotated Letters Exchanged with Guido Adler, Pablo Casals, Emanuel Feuermann, and Olin Downes

By: Arnold Schoenberg,Egbert M. Ennulat

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. Selected unpublished correspondence written between 1903 and 1950 includes the responses of the addressees. Gives a vivid picture of the historical controversies between the composer and other major figures in the field.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810824523

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9780810824522

Schoenberg: ‘Night Music' – Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung

By: Arnold Whittall

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Schoenberg: ‘Night Music' – Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung

By: Arnold Whittall

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser of musical puzzles. Yet to claim that in his music he replaced tonality with its absolute opposite, atonality, as the twelve-tone method swept away all trace of traditional harmonic and thematic processes, is as misleading as to argue that romantic warmth and humanity morphed into the purest and most austerely modernistic spirituality. This handbook refocuses the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major compositions; the expressive character of those relatively early works which centre on nocturnal images of darkness and despair is at its most original and powerful in Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung, where the dramatic interplay between stabilising continuities and disorientating fragmentations reveals the elements of a modernist aesthetics that remained fundamental to Schoenberg's musical thought.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009084798

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9781009084796

Arnold Schoenberg Letters

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Arnold Schoenberg Letters

By: Arnold Schoenberg

Background notes about each stage of his life and career, accompany Schoenberg's letters to artists, intellectuals, and fellow composers

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Univ of California Press

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Arnold Schoenberg Correspondence

A Collection of Translated and Annotated Letters Exchanged with Guido Adler, Pablo Casals, Emanuel Feuermann, and Olin Downes

By: Arnold Schoenberg,Egbert M. Ennulat

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Arnold Schoenberg Correspondence

A Collection of Translated and Annotated Letters Exchanged with Guido Adler, Pablo Casals, Emanuel Feuermann, and Olin Downes

By: Arnold Schoenberg,Egbert M. Ennulat

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0810824523

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Style and Idea

Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

By: Arnold Schoenberg,Leonard Stein

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Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

By: Arnold Schoenberg,Leonard Stein

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Faber & Faber

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0571097227

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9780571097227

Schoenberg's Correspondence with American Composers

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Schoenberg's Early Correspondence

1891-May 1907

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Schoenberg's Early Correspondence

1891-May 1907

By: Arnold Schoenberg

Early in his career, the composer Arnold Schoenberg maintained correspondence with many notable figures: Gustav Mahler, Heinrich Schenker, Guido Adler, Arnold Rosé, Richard Strauss, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, to name a few. In this volume of Oxford's Schoenberg in Words series, Ethan Haimo and Sabine Feisst present English translations of the entirety of Arnold Schoenberg's early correspondence, from the earliest extant letters in 1891 to those written in the aftermath of the controversial premieres of his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, and the Kammersymphonie, Op. 9. The letters provide a wealth of information on many of the crucial stages in Schoenberg's early career, offering invaluable insights into his daily life and working habits. New details emerge about his activities at Wolzogen's Buntes Theater in Berlin, his frequently confrontational interactions with his first publisher (Dreililien Verlag), the reactions of friends and critics to the premieres of his works, his role in the founding of the Vereinigung schaffender Tonkünstler, his activities as a teacher, and his (all too often unsuccessful) attempts to convince musicians to perform his music. Presented alongside the editors' extensive running commentary, the more than 300 letters in this volume create a vivid picture of the young Schoenberg and his times.

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Oxford University Press

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0195383729

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Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Schoenberg's Models for Beginners in Composition

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Exploring Twentieth-Century Music

Tradition and Innovation

By: Arnold Whittall

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Exploring Twentieth-Century Music

Tradition and Innovation

By: Arnold Whittall

In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully between the cultural and the technical, the general and the particular, to explore the various contexts and critical perspectives which illuminate certain works by these composers. Considering the extent to which place and nationality contribute to the definition of musical character, he investigates the relevance of such images as mirroring and symmetry, the function of genre and the way types of identity may be suggested by such labels as classical, modernist, secular, sacred radical, traditional. These categories are considered as flexible and interactive and they generate a wide-ranging series of narratives delineating some of the most fundamental forces which affected composers and their works within the complex and challenging world of the twentieth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521016681

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Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form

By: Arnold Sch”nberg

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Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form

By: Arnold Sch”nberg

Only Stravinsky can claim as much credit as Schoenberg for the most dramatic innovations in twentieth-century music. Inventor of the twelve-tone row, explorer of atonality and the hexachord, composer of tone poems, songs, and chamber music, and chief spokesman for the Vienna Circle, Schoenberg has become ever more influential as his successors have come to understand him. ø Fuller understanding has been delayed because many of his writings have not yet been edited or published. This volume collects four short works, each concentrated on a key issue in composition. Written in 1917, but altered and augmented many times in later years, the manuscripts edited and translated in this volume have never been published before. ø Their importance can permit no further delay since they present Schoenberg's thinking well after the publication in 1911 of Harmonielehre, his revolutionary theoretical book. The later texts provide numerous prospects for enhancing the study and appreciation of Schoenberg's compositions and theories. ø Also a painter, Schoenberg enjoyed the friendship of Kandinsky and the Berlin expressionists. This volume includes a frontispiece reproducing one of Schoenberg's paintings.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803242301

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9780803242302

Musikalische Gedanke und die Logik, Technik und Kunst seiner Darstellung

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Musikalische Gedanke und die Logik, Technik und Kunst seiner Darstellung

By: Arnold Schoenberg

This treatise relates Schoenberg's concept of the musical idea. It defines his thought on gestalt, motive, grundgestalt, phrase, rhythm and accent, the construction function of harmony, homophonic and contrapuntal forms, and compositional coherence.

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Columbia University Press

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0231064284

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9780231064286

Theory of Harmony

By: Arnold Schoenberg

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Theory of Harmony

By: Arnold Schoenberg

This book will come as a joy, a revelation, a warm reassurance. From this one book one might well learn less about harmony than about form, about aesthetics, even about life. Some will accuse Schoenberg of not concentrating on the topic at hand, but such an accusation, though well-founded, would miss the point of Theory of Harmony, because the heart and soul of the book is to be found in his vivid and penetrating digressions. They are the fascinating reflections of a great and humane musician who was a born writer as well. - from the book.

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Univ of California Press

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0520034643

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9780520034648

Schoenberg's Early Correspondence

By: Ethan Haimo,Sabine Feisst

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Schoenberg's Early Correspondence

By: Ethan Haimo,Sabine Feisst

Early in his career, the composer Arnold Schoenberg maintained correspondence with many notable figures: Gustav Mahler, Heinrich Schenker, Guido Adler, Arnold Rose, Richard Strauss, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, to name a few. In this volume of Oxford's Schoenberg in Words series, Ethan Haimo and Sabine Feisst present English translations of the entirety of Arnold Schoenberg's early correspondence, from the earliest extant letters in 1891 to those written in the aftermath of the controversial premieres of his String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, and the Kammersymphonie, Op. 9. The letters provide a wealth of information on many of the crucial stages in Schoenberg's early career, offering invaluable insights into his daily life and working habits. New details emerge about his activities at Wolzogen's Buntes Theater in Berlin, his frequently confrontational interactions with his first publisher (Dreililien Verlag), the reactions of friends and critics to the premieres of his works, his role in the founding of the Vereinigung schaffender Tonkunstler, his activities as a teacher, and his (all too often unsuccessful) attempts to convince musicians to perform his music. Presented alongside the editors' extensive running commentary, the more than 300 letters in this volume create a vivid picture of the young Schoenberg and his times.

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Schoenberg in Words

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0190865644

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