Arnold Schoenberg's journey
By: Allen Shawn
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780374105907
Subjects: Critique et interprétation; Biographie; Criticism and interpretation
Description: A survey of Schoenberg's oeuvre, musical and visual, and of his influence on European Impressionism and American jazz.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Six Little Piano Pieces; title: Bridge Passage, 1874-1908; title: First Loves; title: Transfigured Night; title: Dawn: The Gurre-Lieder; title: Berlin Cabaret; title: Coming Apart; title: An Inner Compulsion; title: A New Form of Expression, 1909-13; title: Farben; title: Listening to Five Pieces for Orchestra; title: Paths to (and in) Erwartung; title: Wrong Notes; title: Six Little Pieces; title: Theory of Harmony; title: Pierrot; title: Die gluckliche Hand; title: Silence, Order, and Terror, 1914-33; title: Incident at Mattsee; title: Critics and Disciples; title: A Clearing in the Forest: Twelve-Tone Music; title: Satires; title: Catastrophe; title: Moses and Arnold; title: America, 1933-51; title: Exodus; title: 1940: Stravinsky and Schoenberg; title: Games; title: On Being Short; title: Piano Concerto; title: Death and Rebirth; title: Seventy-fifth Birthday; title: Afterlife; title: Death and Rebirth II; title: Writings about Schoenberg; title: Last Notes: Portrait in Retrograde.