Schoenberg and redemption
By: Julie Brown
Series: New perspectives in music history and criticism; New perspectives in music history and criticism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780521550352
Subjects: Atonality; Criticism and interpretation; Influence; Redemption
Description: Presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. In 1898 and especially 1908, Schoenberg's Jewish identity came into confrontation with his commitment to Wagnerian modernism to provide an impetus to his radical innovations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Schoenberg, history, trauma?; title: Schoenberg as Christ; title: Otto Weininger, Richard Wagner, and musical discourse in turn-of-the-century Vienna; title: Schoenberg and Wagnerian Deutschtum; title: Compositional innovation and the redemption of Ahasuerus; title: Woman and the symbolism of self-redemption; title: Rereading Schoenberg's musical idea; title: Coda. Changing history into memory.