The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg

A reader-friendly, comprehensive, and innovative single volume introduction to Schoenberg's life, works, and ongoing legacy.

Jennifer Shaw (Edited by), Joseph Auner (Edited by)

9780521870498, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 May 2010

336 pages, 2 tables 67 music examples
25.4 x 17.7 x 2 cm, 0.81 kg

'[This] volume is expertly edited, the chronology, bibliography, footnotes, and index are exemplary, the music examples and tables are irreproachable, and the nineteen individual contributions develop into a coherent book in content, style, and technical presentation. The authors and editors of [this] Schoenberg volume maintain the high standards of the Cambridge Companion series.' Music and Letters

Arnold Schoenberg – composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Challenging monolithic views of the composer as an isolated elitist, the volume demonstrates that what has kept Schoenberg and his music interesting and provocative was his profound engagement with the musical traditions he inherited and transformed, with the broad range of musical and artistic developments during his lifetime he critiqued and incorporated, and with the fundamental cultural, social, and political disruptions through which he lived. The book provides introductions to Schoenberg's most important works, and to his groundbreaking innovations including his twelve-tone compositions. Chapters also examine Schoenberg's lasting influence on other composers and writers over the last century.

Chronology of Schoenberg's life and works
1. Introduction Jennifer Shaw and Joseph Auner
Part I. Schoenberg's Early Years: 2. Schoenberg's Lieder Walter Frisch
3. Schoenberg and the tradition of chamber music for strings Michael Cherlin
4. Two early Schoenberg songs: monotonality, multitonality and schwebende Tonalität Robert P. Morgan
5. Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Strauss Craig De Wilde
Part II. Schoenberg, Modernism, and Modernity: 6. Interpreting Erwartung: collaborative process and early reception Elizabeth Keathley
7. The rise and fall of radical athematicism Ethan Haimo
8. Schoenberg, modernism, and metaphysics Julian Johnson
9. Pierrot lunaire: persona, voice, and the fabric of allusion Richard Kurth
Part III. Schoenberg Between the World Wars: 10. Schoenberg as teacher Joy H. Calico
11. Schoenberg, satire, and the Zeitoper Peter Tregear
12. Schoenberg's row tables: temporality and the idea Joseph Auner
13. Immanence and transcendence in Moses und Aron Richard Kurth
14. On Jewish history and identity: approaches to Schoenberg as Jew Steven J. Cahn
Part IV. Schoenberg's American Years: 15. Cadence after thirty-three years: Schoenberg's Second Chamber Symphony, Op. 38 Severine Neff
16. Schoenberg's collaborations Jennifer Shaw
17. Listening to Schoenberg's Piano Concerto Walter B. Bailey
18. Schoenberg's reception in America, 1933–1951 Sabine Feisst
19. Schoenberg: dead or alive? His reception amongst the post-war European avant-garde Richard Toop.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], Opera [AVGC9], 20th century & contemporary classical music [AVGC6], Music [AV]