Schoenberg and Words
Subtitle: The Modernist Years (Bordercrossings, 11)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780815328308
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Vocal music; Modernism (Music); History; Music/Songbooks; Schoenberg, Arnold,; Music; Genres & Styles - Classical; History & Criticism - General; Music / Classical; Schoenberg, Arnold; 1874-1951; 20e siáecle; 20th century; Histoire et critique; History and criticism; Music and literature; Musique vocale
First sentence: Introducing a paper delivered to the first Congress of the International Schoenberg Society in 1974, Peter Horst Neumann writes thus about the necessary relationship of musicologists and scholars of literature: The more seriously [the musicologist] takes his subject, the more strongly he feels the necessity of overstepping its boundaries.