The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg (Cambridge Companions to Music) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521690862 ISBN 13: 9780521690867

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Arnold Schoenberg is one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles, in the context of his interactions with contemporary artistic, social, and cultural developments.

About the Author:

Jennifer Shaw is Professor and Head of the School of Arts at the University of New England, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521690862
• ISBN 13: 9780521690867
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346
• Editor: Shaw Jennifer, Auner Joseph