Constructive Dissonance
Subtitle: Arnold Schoenberg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture
Contributors: Juliane Brand (Editor); Christopher Hailey (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 27, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780520203143
Subjects: 20th century music; Composers & musicians; Cultural studies; Music Of The 20th Century; Music/Songbooks; Music; History & Criticism - By Composer; Music / General; Schoenberg, Arnold; Congresses; History & Criticism - General; 1874-1951; Schoenberg, Arnold,
First sentence: Arnold Schoenberg's contemporary, the painter Oskar Kokoschka, grasped the historical paradox represented by Schoenberg's career precisely in 1949.
Description: Constructive Dissonance is an interdisciplinary examination of the historical, aesthetic, and intellectual issues that formed Schoenberg's creative persona and continue to influence our response to the modernist legacy of the first half of this century. The essays of the first section investigate Schoenberg's sense of ethnic, religious, and cultural identity. The second section focuses on specific works and the interplay between creative impulse and aesthetic articulation.

The final section, addresses the relationship of Schoenberg's legacy to present-day thought and practice.