Five orchestral pieces, op. 16

Five orchestral pieces, op. 16
Author: Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486406423

Possessing a soloistic texture and variations in instrumental color defined by Grove's as "chamber music for full orchestra," this 1909 work demonstrates the composer's daring explorations in music that renounces motivic connections and tonality. Includes bar-numbered movements and ample margins at the bottom of each page for notes and analysis.

The Viennese Waltz

The Viennese Waltz
Author: Danielle Hood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2022-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1793653933

This book shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artifice—covering with glitz and glamour the poverty and war central to the time—to the link between the three classes, between man and nature, and between Viennese and “Other.”

Anton Webern

Anton Webern
Author: Darin Hoskisson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317672682

Anton Webern: A Research and Information Guide offers carefully selected and annotated sources regarding Webern from 1975 to present day, including sources on Webern’s life, his music, and the interpretation and reception of his music. Along with this comprehensive annotated listing of print and online sources, the book discusses the history of research on Webern and includes a brief chronology of his life. It is a major reference tool for those interested in Webern and his music and valuable for researchers of 20th century music and the Second Viennese School.

Roger Sessions

Roger Sessions
Author: Andrea Olmstead
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135868921

Recognized as the primary American symphonist of the 20th century, Roger Sessions (1896-1985) is one of the leading representatives of high modernism. His stature among American composers rivals Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and Elliott Carter. Sessions was awarded two Pulitzer prizes, election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winning the Brandeis Creative Arts Award, the Gold Medal of the American Academy, and a MacDowell Medal, in addition to 14 honorary doctorates. Roger Sessions: A Biography brings together considerable previously unpublished archival material, such as letters, lectures, interviews, and articles, to shed light on the life and music of this major American composer. Andrea Olmstead, a teaching colleague of Sessions at Juilliard and the leading scholar on his music, has written a complete biography charting five touchstone areas through Sessions’s eighty-eight years: music, religion, politics, money, and sexuality.