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Schoenberg and Words: The Modernist Years (Border Crossings) [Hardcover]

Charlotte M. Cross (Editor), Russell A. Berman (Editor)

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December 7, 2000 0815328303 978-0815328308 1
This work disentangles significant aspects of Schoenberg's complex relationship with turn of the century modernism. These essays focus on the two important aspects of the composer's career: the musical works he composed to literary texts and his writings on theoretical, aesthetic and ethical issues, from the mid-1890s to 1916. This work disentangles significant aspects of Schoenberg's complex relationship with turn of the century modernism. These essays focus on two aspects of the composer's career and examine the context of his works composed from the mid-1890s through to 1916.

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Charlotte M. Cross received a PhD. in Historical Musicology from Columbia University in 1992 and has published extensively on Schoenberg. Russell A. Berman is Chair of German Studies at Stanford University and author of Enlightenment of Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture (1998).

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Introducing a paper delivered to the first Congress of the International Schoenberg Society in 1974, Peter Horst Neumann writes thus about the necessary relationship of musicologists and scholars of literature: The more seriously [the musicologist] takes his subject, the more strongly he feels the necessity of overstepping its boundaries. Read the first page
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ist bald vorbei, physical motifs, composition with twelve tones, color crescendo, later orchestration, raging host, salient musical features, orchestrational style, organic artwork, prophetic artist, ward ich, orchestral songs, extended tonality, ideological misuse, musical modernism, developing variation, row statements, tonal works, aesthetic theology, tonal form, draft libretto, functional tonality, feminist content, endless melody, inmost essence
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Arnold Schoenberg, New York, Belmont Music Publishers, University of California Press, Pacific Palisades, Richard Dehmel, Los Angeles, Textual Choices, Das Buch, Der Wanderer, Gustav Mahler, Stefan George, Alban Berg, Leonard Stein, Cambridge University Press, Carl Dahlhaus, Marie Pappenheim, Severine Neff, Arnold Schonberg, Die Jakobsleiter, Leo Black, Patricia Carpenter, Ludwig Pfau, University of Chicago Press, Walter Frisch
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