Arnold Schoenberg is widely regarded as one of the most significant and innovative composers of the twentieth century. It is commonly assumed that Schoenberg's music divides into three periods: tonal, atonal, and serial. It is also assumed that Schoenberg's atonal music made a revolutionary break with the past, particularly in terms of harmonic structure. This book challenges both these popular notions. Haimo argues that Schoenberg's 'atonal' music does not constitute a distinct unified period. He demonstrates that much of the music commonly described as 'atonal' did not make a complete break with prior practices, even in the harmonic realm, but instead transformed the past by a series of incremental changes. An important and influential contribution to the field, Haimo's findings help not only to re-evaluate Schoenberg, but also to re-date much of what has been defined as one of the most crucial turning points in music history.
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'... impressive book ... Haimo argues his case compellingly.' Alfred Cramer, Journal of the American Musicological Society
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One of the most influential composers of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg's musical innovations still resonate today. Ethan Haimo challenges the popular notion that Schoenberg's atonal music made a revolutionary break with the past, arguing that his music instead transformed the past through a series of incremental changes.
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string quartet fragment, referential tonic, single diatonic collection, elaborative tones, referential triad, identifiable tonal center, whole tone hexachord, other songs from this period, darf nicht dankend, trichordal subset, symmetrical subsets, chordal vocabulary, intervallic succession, referential center, pitch language, clear tonal definition, traditional compositional devices, first eleven measures, referential sonority, alles ist hin, traditional harmonic progressions, chordal dissonances, chordal types, prior repertoires, traditional formal types Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Verklärte Nacht, Das Buch, Rosé Quartet, Der Wanderer, Ein Stelldichein, Geübtes Herz, Five Orchestral Pieces, Alban Berg, Mit Toves Stimme, Richard Strauss, Stefan George, Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Jane Grey, Walter Frisch, Alexander Zemlinsky, Als Neuling, Arnold Schönberg, C-sharp D-sharp, F-sharp A-sharp, Richard Dehmel, Six Songs New!
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string quartet fragment, referential tonic, single diatonic collection, elaborative tones, referential triad, identifiable tonal center, whole tone hexachord, other songs from this period, darf nicht dankend, trichordal subset, symmetrical subsets, chordal vocabulary, intervallic succession, referential center, pitch language, clear tonal definition, traditional compositional devices, first eleven measures, referential sonority, alles ist hin, traditional harmonic progressions, chordal dissonances, chordal types, prior repertoires, traditional formal types Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Verklärte Nacht, Das Buch, Rosé Quartet, Der Wanderer, Ein Stelldichein, Geübtes Herz, Five Orchestral Pieces, Alban Berg, Mit Toves Stimme, Richard Strauss, Stefan George, Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Jane Grey, Walter Frisch, Alexander Zemlinsky, Als Neuling, Arnold Schönberg, C-sharp D-sharp, F-sharp A-sharp, Richard Dehmel, Six Songs New!
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- Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture by Juliane Brand on 10 pages
- Schoenberg and the New Music: Essays by Carl Dahlhaus by Carl Dahlhaus on 7 pages
- Five Orchestral Pieces (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Arnold Schoenberg on 6 pages
- Ferruccio Busoni by Antony Beaumont on 5 pages
- Music of My Future: The Schoenberg Quartets and Trio (Harvard Publications in Music) by Reinhold Brinkmann on 5 pages
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