Schoenberg and the New Music Essays by Carl Dahlhaus [Paperback]

A collection of essays, by the leading German musicologist, on one of the most controversial composers of our century.The works of composer Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most influential yet controversial 20th century composers, are analyzed in the context of the New Music that reflected the historical and cultural beliefs of his time.The works of composer Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most influential yet controversial 20th century composers, are analyzed in the context of the New Music that reflected the historical and cultural beliefs of his time.This collection of essays examines the works of composer Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most influential and controversial composers of the twentieth century, in the context of the New Music that was the historical and cultural movement of his time. In these essays, Schoenberg's work is subjected to historical, technical and theoretical analysis. Studies of other New Music composers such as Webern, Schreker and Scriabin are also provided. The collection includes essays of broader cultural-historical and sociological import that should interest those involved with twentieth-century music and theory.Translators' introduction; 1. 'New Music' as historical category; 2. Progress and the avant garde; 3. Avant garde and popularity; 4. New Music and the problem of musical genre; 5. Problems of rhythm in the New Music; 6. Tonality: structure or process?; 7. Schoenberg's poetics of music; 8. Schoenberg's aesthetic theology; 9. Schoenberg and programme music; 10. Musical prose; 11. Emancipation of the dissonance; 12. What is 'developing variation'?; 13. Schoenberg and Schenker; 14. Schoenberg's Orchestral Piece Op. 16, No. 3 and the concept of Klangfarbenmelodie; 15. 'The Obbligato Recitative'; 16. Expressive principle and orchestral polyphony in Schoenberg's Erwartung; 17. Schoenberg's late works; 18. The fugue as prelude: Schoenberg's Genesis composition, Op. 44; 19. Rhythmic structures in Webern's Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6lÊ