37 results for 'schoenberg'

Arnold Schoenberg's Early Correspondence presents the entirety of his early letters in English translation. Spanning from 1891 to the aftermath of his String Quartet No. 1 and Kammersymphonie...

Arnold Schoenberg was a pivotal figure in the development of modern music. His innovative compositional methods, which abandoned traditional tonality and introduced the 12-tone 'serial' technique,...

Schoenberg: A Comprehensive StudyThis fully updated edition offers a fresh perspective on Arnold Schoenberg's life and work, drawing on 30 years of recent scholarship and new biographical information...

Arnold Schoenberg: A Revolutionary Life and Work This biography provides a refreshingly balanced look at the life and music of Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most radical and divisive composers of the...

Arnold Schoenberg was a composer whose music was considered revolutionary in his time. Today, however, his works are rarely performed by leading orchestras and his name is often met with indifference...

Schoenberg and the New Music: Essays by Carl DahlhausThis collection of essays explores the life and work of Arnold Schoenberg, a composer whose influence extends far beyond his own music. Considered...

Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg A fascinating story of how music has influenced mathematics and vice versa is revealed in this book. Eli Maor explores key moments in the history...

The Musical Thought and Spiritual Lives of Heinrich Schenker and Arnold Schoenberg This book explores the intertwined musical and spiritual lives of two influential composers, Heinrich Schenker and...

The Moses Complex explores the relation between media, migration and politics through the works of Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schoenberg, Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet. This book delves into the...

Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw is a powerful and thought-provoking work that explores the complexities of postwar Europe. Written by Joy H. Calico, this book examines the cultural history...

Arnold Schoenberg's Style and Idea explores the relationship between style and idea in music. In this collection of essays, Schoenberg discusses topics such as the role of text in composition, the...

The Battle of Little Big Horn Revisited Dale T. Schoenberger's monumental work provides a detailed and intimate account of the destruction of Custer's battalion, challenging long-held assumptions...

Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 by Arnold Schoenberg is a highly acclaimed and accurate Urtext edition, featuring an English translation of the original German text. This edition is designed with the...

Structural Functions of Harmony explores the principles of harmony and their application to musical structure. The book builds upon Schoenberg's earlier work, Theory of Harmony, by examining key...

Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in F-Sharp Minor: Opus 10 is a landmark work that has left an indelible mark on Western art music. For nearly a century, it has been a source of inspiration...

The story of music and mathematics is one of influence and interplay. From Pythagoras to Schoenberg, composers and scientists have drawn inspiration from each other's work, leading to significant...

Schoenberg's final theoretical work, published in 1948, offers his ultimate thoughts on classical and romantic harmony. This comprehensive treatise provides an in-depth analysis of the fundamental...

The Cultural Crisis of the Firm by Erica Schoenberger is an examination of corporate inertia in the face of known threats to survival. This thought-provoking analysis combines theoretical insights...

Theodor W. Adorno's Philosophy of New Music is a foundational work in musicological philosophy that explores the relationship between composition and musical reproduction. First published in 1949,...

Sandy Moss's day starts like any other - with a client meeting to prepare for. But when an unexpected new client walks into her office, Sandy's plans are quickly derailed. Eleven-year-old Riley...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the cultural experiment that took place at the beginning of the 20th century. It explores the intersection of avant-garde art and thought, focusing on two key...

Discover the key to modernism, an artistic and cultural movement that transformed the 20th century.This graphic guide explores the innovations that shaped art, architecture, music, cinema, and...

Alfred Brendel's writings on music offer a unique insight into the exceptional mind of one of the outstanding musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This collection brings together...

Focus on Grammar - 5th Edition Workbook (Level 2) by Irene Schoenberg provides an integrated-skills approach to help students achieve their goal of communicating confidently, accurately, and fluently...

Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre is a novel about a French woman's complex encounter with an American-German pianist-composer. Her life unravels as she travels home, accompanied by her sister and...

Foundations of Modern Harmony by Karel Janec̆ek is a comprehensive guide to the analysis and composition of music that moves beyond traditional tonal harmony. By developing a new vocabulary for...

Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory is presented in Mimesis, Expression, Construction. Transcribed from audio recordings taken by Octavian Esanu in 2003, this work reproduces the seminar's...

Viennese architecture has produced some of the finest masterpieces of the twentieth century. This insightful analysis explores the city's rich architectural tradition from the fin-de-siècle to the...

Modernism and Opera explores the intersection of two seemingly disparate art forms: modernist literature and opera. Despite their differences, many operas showcase avant-garde aesthetics, political...

Eric R. Kandel explores how science can inform our understanding of art and its meaning in this new book.The author, a neuroscientist with a deep interest in art, demonstrates how reductionism - the...

The Music of Dada: A Historical Analysis of Music at the Heart of the Movement. For 100 years, the Dada movement has been associated with noise and disorder. However, music played a central role in...

Lady Caroline Blackwood was a woman of captivating beauty and wit, whose dark-eyed allure has been immortalized in photographs by Walker Evans and paintings by Lucian Freud. Her life was marked by...

Music, Time, and Its Other explores the complex relationship between our temporal experiences and music's emotional impact. By examining competing concepts of time, Roger W.H. Savage reveals how...

Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater by Caroline A. Kita explores how Jewish artists in fin de siècle Vienna reimagined biblical stories to...

This collection presents a significant selection from the writings of Henry Cowell, one of the most influential American composers and musical theorists of the 20th century. Spanning over 200 essays...

American soprano Bethany Beardslee's remarkable life story is told in her autobiography, I Sang the Unsingable. Born in 1925, Beardslee rose to prominence in post-war America with her unique voice...

Cathleen Schine's Künstlers in Paradise is a captivating tale of love, loss, and legacy set against the backdrop of two iconic cities: Vienna and Los Angeles. When Mamie Künstler, a feisty...