Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) is often portrayed as a composer
who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during
the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed
deviser of musical puzzles. Yet to claim that in his music he
replaced tonality with its absolute opposite, atonality, as the
twelve-tone method swept away all trace of traditional harmonic and
thematic processes, is as misleading as to argue that romantic
warmth and humanity morphed into the purest and most austerely
modernistic spirituality. This handbook refocuses the wealth of
recent research into two of Schoenberg's major compositions; the
expressive character of those relatively early works which centre
on nocturnal images of darkness and despair is at its most original
and powerful in Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung, where the dramatic
interplay between stabilising continuities and disorientating
fragmentations reveals the elements of a modernist aesthetics that
remained fundamental to Schoenberg's musical thought.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
New Cambridge Music Handbooks |
| Release date: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Arnold Whittall
|
| Pages: |
180 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-00-907736-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-00-907736-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781009077361 |
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