Musikalische Gedanke und die Logik, Technik und Kunst seiner Darstellung

Musikalische Gedanke und die Logik, Technik und Kunst seiner Darstellung
Author: Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780231064286

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg

The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg
Author: Jennifer Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 655
Release: 2010-05-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 113982807X

Arnold Schoenberg – composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Challenging monolithic views of the composer as an isolated elitist, the volume demonstrates that what has kept Schoenberg and his music interesting and provocative was his profound engagement with the musical traditions he inherited and transformed, with the broad range of musical and artistic developments during his lifetime he critiqued and incorporated, and with the fundamental cultural, social, and political disruptions through which he lived. The book provides introductions to Schoenberg's most important works, and to his groundbreaking innovations including his twelve-tone compositions. Chapters also examine Schoenberg's lasting influence on other composers and writers over the last century.

Schoenberg and Words

Schoenberg and Words
Author: Charlotte Marie Cross
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2000
Genre: Modernism (Music)
ISBN: 9780815328308

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction

Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction
Author: Arved Ashby
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2010-06-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520945697

Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of "absolute" instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive and instruments of a musical vernacular, but also finds that recording and absolute music actually involve similar notions of removing sound from context. He takes stock of technology's impact on classical music, addressing the questions at the heart of the issue. This erudite yet concise study reveals how mechanical reproduction has transformed classical musical culture and the very act of listening, breaking down aesthetic and generational barriers and mixing classical music into the soundtrack of everyday life.

Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form

Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form
Author: Arnold Sch”nberg
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780803242302

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.

Music Theory and Analysis in the Writings of Arnold Schoenberg (1874?951)

Music Theory and Analysis in the Writings of Arnold Schoenberg (1874?951)
Author: Norton Dudeque
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351557165

Arnold Schoenberg's theory of music has been much discussed but his approach to music theory needs a new historical and theoretical assessment in order to provide a clearer understanding of his contributions to music theory and analysis. Norton Dudeque's achievement in this book involves the synthesis of Schoenberg's theoretical ideas from the whole of the composer's working life, including material only published well after his death. The book discusses Schoenberg's rejection of his German music theory heritage and past approaches to music-theory pedagogy, the need for looking at musical structures differently and to avoid aesthetic and stylistic issues. Dudeque provides a unique understanding of the systematization of Schoenberg's tonal-harmonic theory, thematic/motivic-development theory and the links with contemporary and past music theories. The book is complemented by a special section that explores the practical application of the theoretical material already discussed. The focus of this section is on Schoenberg's analytical practice, and the author's response to it. Norton Dudeque therefore provides a comprehensive understanding of Schoenberg's thinking on tonal harmony, motive and form that has hitherto not been attempted.

Crossing Paths

Crossing Paths
Author: John Daverio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2002-10-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195132963

Each discussion contributes to a portrait of these three composers as musical storytellers, each in his own way simulating the structure of lived experience in works of art."--BOOK JACKET.

John Cage

John Cage
Author: David Patterson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136527915

John Cage seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the pre-chance period between 1933 and 1950 that is crucial to understanding his later work. The essays consider Cage's influences, his evolving aesthetic, and his movement toward ideology that would later shape his work.