Schoenberg's Musical Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Michael Cherlin is Professor of Music Theory and Associate Director of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext Schoenberg's Musical Imagination is intended to connect Schoenberg's music and critical writings to a larger world of ideas. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. A passing of worlds: Gurrelieder as Schoenberg's reluctant farewell to the nineteenth century; 2. Dialectical opposition in Schoenberg's music and thought; 3. Dramatic conflict in Pelleas und Melisande; 4. Motive and memory in Schoenberg's First String Quartet; 5. Uncanny expressions of time in the music of Arnold Schoenberg; 6. The tone row as the source of dramatic conflict in Moses und Aron; 7. The String Trio: metaleptic Schoenberg; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.

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Schoenberg's Musical Imagination is intended to connect Schoenberg's music and critical writings to a larger world of ideas.

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Introduction; 1. A passing of worlds: Gurrelieder as Schoenberg's reluctant farewell to the nineteenth century; 2. Dialectical opposition in Schoenberg's music and thought; 3. Dramatic conflict in Pelleas und Melisande; 4. Motive and memory in Schoenberg's First String Quartet; 5. Uncanny expressions of time in the music of Arnold Schoenberg; 6. The tone row as the source of dramatic conflict in Moses und Aron; 7. The String Trio: metaleptic Schoenberg; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.