Full Description
Schoenberg and Words disentangles significant aspects of the composer's complex relationship to fin-de-siecle modernism, especially in its Viennese variety. The eleven new essays examine the texts and contexts of works Schoenberg composed from the mid-1890s through 1916 and his writings on theoretical, aesthetic, and ethical issues.
Contents
Foreward Introduction PART ONE 1. Schoenberg and GermanPoetry Robert Vilain 2. Gurrelieder and the Fall of the Gods: Schoenbergs' Struggle with the Leagcy of Wagner Brian G. Campbell 3. Schoenberg Sets Petrach: Schopenhauer,Mahler and the Poetics of Resignation Robert R. HOlzer 4. 'The Ear of the Other': Style and Identity in Schoenberg's Eight Songs, op. 6 Alan Street 5. 'Die Frauenfrage' in Erwartung: Schoenberg's Collaboration with Marie Pappenheim Elizabeth L. Keathley 6. Physical Motif and Aural Salience: Sounds and Symbols in Die gluckliche Hand, op. 18 Edward D. Latham 7. Pierrot's Cave: Representation, Reverberation, Radiance Ricahrd Kurth 8. The Artist as Modern Prophet: A Study of Historical Consciousness and Its Expression in Schoenberg's Vorgefuhl op. 22, no. 4 Steven J. Cahn PART TWO 9. Reinventing the Organic Artwork: schoenberg's Changing Image of Tonal Form Severine Neff 10. Schoenberg's @poetics of Music', the Twelve-Tone Method and the Musical idea John Covach 11. Modernism and Words: Schoenberg, Adorno, Moses Murray Dineen
