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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2007
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9780511481987

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No composer was more responsible for changes in the landscape of twentieth-century music than Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) and no other composer's music inspired a commensurate quantity and quality of technical description in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet there is still little understanding of the correlations between Schoenberg's musical thought and larger questions of cultural significance in and since his time: the formalistic descriptions of music theory do not generally engage larger questions in the history of ideas and scholars without understanding of the formidable musical technique are ill-equipped to understand the music with any profundity of thought. Schoenberg's Musical Imagination is intended to connect Schoenberg's music and critical writings to a larger world of ideas. While most technical studies of Schoenberg's music are limited to a single compositional period, this book traces changes in his attitudes as a composer and their impact on his ever-changing compositional style over the course of his remarkable career.

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"...deserves recognition as one of the most important contributions to the analysis of Schoenberg's music in recent years." --Current Musicology

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Bibliography
Bibliography
Writings of Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg, Arnold Schoenberg: A Self Portrait. Schoenberg Nono, Nuria, ed. Belmont Music, 1988
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Books and Articles about Schoenberg
Bailey, Walter B., Programmatic Elements in the Works of Schoenberg. UMI Research Press, 1984
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Berg, Albanet al., Arnold Schönberg. R. Piper, 1912
Leon Botstein, “Schoenberg and the Audience: Modernism, Music, and Politics in the Twentieth Century,” in Schoenberg and His World, Walter Frisch, ed. Princeton University Press, 1999
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Brinkmann, Reinhold, Correspondence. The Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute I/3, 182–5
Brinkmann, Reinhold, “Schoenberg the Contemporary: A View from Behind,” in Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture. University of California Press, 1997
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Cherlin, Michael, “Dialectical Opposition in Schoenberg's Music and Thought.” Music Theory Spectrum 22/2 (Fall 2000), 157–76
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Cherlin, Michael, “Memory and Rhetorical Trope in Schoenberg's String Trio.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 51/3 (Fall 1998), 559–602
Michael Cherlin, “Motive and Memory in Schoenberg's First String Quartet,” in The Music of My Future: The Schoenberg Quartets and Trio, Brinkmann, Reinhold and Wolff, Christoph, editors. Harvard University Press (2000), 61–80
Michael, Cherlin, “Schoenberg and das Unheimliche.” The Journal of Musicology 11/3 (Summer 1993), 357–73
Michael, Cherlin, “Schoenberg's Representation of the Divine in Moses und Aron.” Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute IX/2, 210–16
Cohn, Richard, “Uncanny Resemblances: Tonal Signification in the Freudian Age.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, 57/2 (2004), 285–323
Dahlhaus, Carl, Schoenberg and the New Music, translated by Derrick Puffett and Alfred Clayton. Cambridge University Press, 1987
Fleisher, Robert, “Dualism in the Music of Arnold Schoenberg.” Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute XII/1 (June 1989), 22–42
Frisch, Walter, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893–1908. University of California Press, 1993
Frisch, Walter, editor, Schoenberg and his World. Princeton University Press, 1999
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Glenn Gould, “Schoenberg – A Perspective,” in The Glenn Gould Reader, introduction by Page, Tim, editor. Knopf, 1984, 107–22
Haimo, Ethan, Schoenberg's Serial Odyssey: The evolution of his Twelve-Tone Method, 1914–1928. Oxford University Press, 1990
Hyde, Martha, “Neoclassic and Anachronistic Impulses in Twentieth-Century Music.” Music Theory Spectrum 18/2 (1996), 200–35
Keller, Hans, “Schoenberg's Return to Tonality.” Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute V/1, 2–21
Richard Kurth, “Moments of Closure: Thoughts on the Suspension of Tonality in Schoenberg's Fourth Quartet and Trio,” in Music of My Future: The Schoenberg Quartets and Trio, Brinkmann, Reinhold and Wolff, Christoph, editors. Harvard University Press (2000), 139–60
Kurth, Richard, “Schönberg and the Bilderverbot: Reflections on Unvorstellbarkeit and Verborgenheit.” Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 3 (2003), 332–72
Kurth, Richard, “Suspended Tonalities in Schönberg's Twelve-tone Compositions.” Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 3 (2001), 239–65
Lacoue-Labarthe, Phillip, Musica Ficta: Figures of Wagner, translated by Felicia McCarren. Stanford University Press, 1994
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General Background
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