Full Description
Contradictory and paradoxical, Schoenberg was responsible for explosively radical innovations in composition - including atonality and the twelve-tone method - that changed the face of music in the twentieth century. This volume explores Schoenberg's life, work and world, offering contributions from internationally recognized musicologists, music theorists, cultural historians, literary scholars and more. Chapters examine the different places where Schoenberg lived, his various approaches to composition, the people and institutions that shaped his life and work, and the big issues and ideas that informed his worldview, including religion, gender, technology and politics. This book is essential for students and educators but also accessible to a general audience interested in the intersections of music, modernity, society and culture, offering a variety of fresh, multi-disciplinary perspectives on Schoenberg and his richly variegated world.
Contents
List of illustrations; List of musical examples; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I. Schoenberg in Place: 1. At home: a conversation with Nuria Schoenberg-Nono Alexander Carpenter; 2. Vienna Mirjana Plath; 3. Schoenberg's Three Berlins Joseph Auner; 4. Mödling Eike Feß; 5. Los Angeles Sabine Feisst; Part II. More Than a Composer: 6. Schoenberg the Painter Raymond Coffer; 7. Schoenberg the Teacher Gordon Root; 8. Schoenberg the Theorist Severine Neff; 9. Schoenberg the Writer Steven J. Cahn; Part III. Approaches to Composition: 10. Tonality Walter Frisch; 11. Atonality Richard Kurth; 12. The twelve-tone style Jack Boss; Part IV. Paradoxes and Predicaments: 13. Popular Music John Covach; 14. Money (and mythos) Alexander Carpenter; 15. The gender of modernism Elizabeth L. Keathley; Part V. Schoenberg's Others: 16. Richard Wagner Matthias Schmidt; 17. Johannes Brahms Lucy Y. Liu; 18. Igor Stravinsky (and Adorno) Stephen D. Smith; 19. Alexander Zemlinsky Clare Carrasco; 20. Gustav Mahler Federico Celestini; 21. Richard Strauss James Deaville; 22. Alban Berg and Anton Webern Alexander Carpenter; Part VI. Viennese Institutions: 23. Café Culture Diane V. Silverthorne; 24. Empire - the Habsburgs Joseph F. Patrouch; 25. Theatre Sherry Lee; 26. Psychoanalysis Daniela Finzi; Part VII. Performers and Critics: 27. Performing Schoenberg Mark Berry; 28. Music criticism and music critics Benjamin M. Korstvedt; Part XIII. Convictions and Interventions: 29. Religion Pamela Cooper-White; 30. Philosophy James K. Wright; 31. War and politics Joon Park; 32. Poetry, literature and language Jeremy Tambling; 33. Technology J. Daniel Jenkins; Index.
