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Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxi, 312 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 commonly held views of the composer as an isolated elitist, the volume examines his engagement with contemporary artistic, social,...
44) Schoenberg
Author
Series
Oxford studies of composers volume 5
Pub. Date
1968
Physical Desc
61 pages : music ; 22 cm.
Language
English
45) Arnold Schonberg
Author
Pub. Date
1969
Physical Desc
vii, 159 pages : music, portrait ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Studies in musicology volume no. 49
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
x, 160 pages : music ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers.
"In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 610 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Historian Gay explores the modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts, Gay traces the revolutionary path of modernism from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement in world capitals such as Berlin and New York. This book presents a pageant...
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1861, a half-century before Arnold Schoenberg's break with tonality, a young composer associated with Liszt saw a threshold to musical modernism as lodged in the "suspension of the main key." As the unified tonal perspective of the earlier music yielded increasingly to dualistic key structures often laden with chromaticism, the language of music was transformed. In The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality, nine prominent theorists and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 204 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" burrowing through your mind like a broken record-repetition...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America. An ill-timed visit forces twentysomething New Yorker Julian to shelter in place in Venice Beach with his glamorous and eccentric ninety-three-year-old grandmother, Mamie Künstler,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable...
59) Secret lives of great composers: what your teachers never told you about the world's musical masters
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
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