Author: Pamela Cooper-White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The last great composer of the romantic tradition and the greatest musical revolutionary of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg, like Beethoven a century earlier, bridges two musical eras. His abandonment of the rules of harmony in the early years of the century in favor of atonalism, and his subsequent invention of the twelve-note method after 1918, were decisive moments in the development of modern music. Every important composer since 1910 has to some extent been influenced by his music and teaching. The story of Schoenberg's struggle against prejudice and incomprehension, even up to his death in 1951, makes gripping and poignant reading. He died with much important work still unfinished, teaching music theory and composition in order to earn a living in the United States, before during and after the war. The author's account of his struggles is accompanied by detailed analyses of the main works and contains much new information, making this essential reading for students, musicians and the musically-interested general reader.
Schoenberg and the God-idea
Author: Pamela Cooper-White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The last great composer of the romantic tradition and the greatest musical revolutionary of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg, like Beethoven a century earlier, bridges two musical eras. His abandonment of the rules of harmony in the early years of the century in favor of atonalism, and his subsequent invention of the twelve-note method after 1918, were decisive moments in the development of modern music. Every important composer since 1910 has to some extent been influenced by his music and teaching. The story of Schoenberg's struggle against prejudice and incomprehension, even up to his death in 1951, makes gripping and poignant reading. He died with much important work still unfinished, teaching music theory and composition in order to earn a living in the United States, before during and after the war. The author's account of his struggles is accompanied by detailed analyses of the main works and contains much new information, making this essential reading for students, musicians and the musically-interested general reader.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The last great composer of the romantic tradition and the greatest musical revolutionary of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg, like Beethoven a century earlier, bridges two musical eras. His abandonment of the rules of harmony in the early years of the century in favor of atonalism, and his subsequent invention of the twelve-note method after 1918, were decisive moments in the development of modern music. Every important composer since 1910 has to some extent been influenced by his music and teaching. The story of Schoenberg's struggle against prejudice and incomprehension, even up to his death in 1951, makes gripping and poignant reading. He died with much important work still unfinished, teaching music theory and composition in order to earn a living in the United States, before during and after the war. The author's account of his struggles is accompanied by detailed analyses of the main works and contains much new information, making this essential reading for students, musicians and the musically-interested general reader.
Schoenberg and Words
Author: Charlotte Marie Cross
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815328308
Category : Modernism (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815328308
Category : Modernism (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Schoenberg and the God-Idea
Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg
Author: Charlotte M. Cross
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135653941
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, music theorists, and scholars of German literature and of Jewish studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135653941
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, music theorists, and scholars of German literature and of Jewish studies.
Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg
Author: Charlotte M. Cross
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135654018
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, music theorists, and scholars of German literature and of Jewish studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135654018
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, music theorists, and scholars of German literature and of Jewish studies.
Schoenberg and Redemption
Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521550351
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521550351
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Handling Dissonance
Author: Chelle L. Stearns
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1625645465
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Music can answer questions that often confound more discursive modes of thought. Music takes concepts that are all too familiar, reframes these concepts, and returns them to us with incisive clarity and renewed vision. Unity is one of these “all too familiar concepts,” thrown around by politicians, journalists, and pastors as if we all know what it means. By turning to music, especially musical space, the relational structure of unity becomes less abstract and more tangible within our philosophy. Arnold Schoenberg, as an inherently musical thinker, is our guide in this study of unity. His reworking of musical structure, dissonance, and metaphysics transformed the tonal language and aesthetic landscape of twentieth–century music. His philosophy of compositional unity helps us to deconstruct and reconceive how unity can be understood and worked with both aesthetically and theologically. This project also critiques Schoenberg’s often monadic musical metaphysic by turning to Colin Gunton’s conviction that the particularity and unity at the heart of God’s triune being should guide all of our theological endeavors. Throughout, music accompanies our thinking, demonstrating not only how theology can benefit the philosophy of music but also how the philosophy of music can enrich and augment theological discourse.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1625645465
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Music can answer questions that often confound more discursive modes of thought. Music takes concepts that are all too familiar, reframes these concepts, and returns them to us with incisive clarity and renewed vision. Unity is one of these “all too familiar concepts,” thrown around by politicians, journalists, and pastors as if we all know what it means. By turning to music, especially musical space, the relational structure of unity becomes less abstract and more tangible within our philosophy. Arnold Schoenberg, as an inherently musical thinker, is our guide in this study of unity. His reworking of musical structure, dissonance, and metaphysics transformed the tonal language and aesthetic landscape of twentieth–century music. His philosophy of compositional unity helps us to deconstruct and reconceive how unity can be understood and worked with both aesthetically and theologically. This project also critiques Schoenberg’s often monadic musical metaphysic by turning to Colin Gunton’s conviction that the particularity and unity at the heart of God’s triune being should guide all of our theological endeavors. Throughout, music accompanies our thinking, demonstrating not only how theology can benefit the philosophy of music but also how the philosophy of music can enrich and augment theological discourse.
The Absence of God in Modernist Literature
Author: G. Erickson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230604269
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man , and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron .
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230604269
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man , and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron .
Bloch, Schoenberg, and Bernstein
Author: David Michael Schiller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198167112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Through studies of works by three composers, this text seeks to demonstrate that 'assimilating Jewish music' is as much a process audiences themselves engage in when they listen to Jewish music as it is something critics and musicologists do when they write about it.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198167112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Through studies of works by three composers, this text seeks to demonstrate that 'assimilating Jewish music' is as much a process audiences themselves engage in when they listen to Jewish music as it is something critics and musicologists do when they write about it.
Schoenberg, Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle
Author: James Kenneth Wright
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039112876
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In 2006, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle received a Lewis Lockwood Award (Finalist) from the American Musicological Society, for outstanding new books on musicological topics. This study examines relativistic aspects of Arnold Schoenberg's harmonic and aesthetic theories in the light of a framework of ideas presented in the early writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the logician, philosopher of language, and Schoenberg's contemporary and Austrian compatriot. The author has identified correspondences between the writings of Schoenberg, the early Wittgenstein (the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in particular), and the Vienna Circle of philosophers, on a wide range of topics and themes. Issues discussed include the nature and limits of language, musical universals, theoretical conventionalism, word-to-world correspondence in language, the need for a fact- and comparison-based approach to art criticism, and the nature of music-theoretical formalism and mathematical modeling. Schoenberg and Wittgenstein are shown to have shared a vision that is remarkable for its uniformity and balance, one that points toward the reconciliation of the positivist/relativist dualism that has dominated recent discourse in music theory. Contrary to earlier accounts of Schoenberg's harmonic and aesthetic relativism, this study identifies a solid epistemological core underlying his thought, a view that was very much in step with Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, and thereby with the most vigorous and pivotal developments in early twentieth century intellectual history
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039112876
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In 2006, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle received a Lewis Lockwood Award (Finalist) from the American Musicological Society, for outstanding new books on musicological topics. This study examines relativistic aspects of Arnold Schoenberg's harmonic and aesthetic theories in the light of a framework of ideas presented in the early writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the logician, philosopher of language, and Schoenberg's contemporary and Austrian compatriot. The author has identified correspondences between the writings of Schoenberg, the early Wittgenstein (the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in particular), and the Vienna Circle of philosophers, on a wide range of topics and themes. Issues discussed include the nature and limits of language, musical universals, theoretical conventionalism, word-to-world correspondence in language, the need for a fact- and comparison-based approach to art criticism, and the nature of music-theoretical formalism and mathematical modeling. Schoenberg and Wittgenstein are shown to have shared a vision that is remarkable for its uniformity and balance, one that points toward the reconciliation of the positivist/relativist dualism that has dominated recent discourse in music theory. Contrary to earlier accounts of Schoenberg's harmonic and aesthetic relativism, this study identifies a solid epistemological core underlying his thought, a view that was very much in step with Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, and thereby with the most vigorous and pivotal developments in early twentieth century intellectual history