Arnold Schoenberg - Softcover

Rosen, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691027064 ISBN 13: 9780691027067

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1981

Synopsis

This book traces the evolution of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone method for a nonspecialist audience. Charles Rosen analyzes Schoenberg's expressionist beginnings and how they relate in theory, performance, and musical experience to the subsequent system of atonality" set forth in the music of Berg, Webem, and Schoenberg himself.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In this lucid, revealing book, award-winning pianist and scholar Charles Rosen sheds light on the elusive music of Arnold Schoenberg and his challenge to conventional musical forms. Rosen argues that Schoenberg's music, with its atonality and dissonance, possesses a rare balance of form and emotion, making it the most expressive music ever written. Concise and accessible, this book looks at Schoenberg's ambiguous relation both to the central tradition of Western music and to the complex developments of modernism. Rosen analyzes Schoenberg's expressionist beginnings and how they relate in theory, performance, and musical experience to the system of atonality set forth in the music of Berg, Webern, and Schoenberg himself.

About the Author:

Charles Rosen is professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Music at the University of Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0691027064
• ISBN 13: 9780691027067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128