Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second Viennese School (review)

Neff, Severine

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Schoenberg's Musical Imagination

Cherlin

2007

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No composer was more responsible for changes in the landscape of twentieth-century music than Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) and no other composer's music inspired a commensurate quantity and quality of technical description in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet there is still little understanding of the correlations between Schoenberg's musical thought and larger questions of cultural significance in and since his time: the formalistic descriptions of music theory do not generally engage larger questions in the history of ideas and scholars without understanding of the formidable musical technique are ill-equipped to understand the music with any profundity of thought. Schoenberg's Musical Imagination is intended to connect Schoenberg's music and critical writings to a larger world of ideas. While most technical studies of Schoenberg's music are limited to a single compositional period, this book traces changes in his attitudes as a composer and their impact on his ever-changing compositional style over the course of his remarkable career.

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Schoenberg's Musical Imagination

Cherlin

2007

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An Analysis of Anton Von Webern’s Concerto for Nine Instruments

Karaol¹

2014

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Anton Webern's (1883Webern's ( -1945 largest project of the early the 1930s, the Concerto for Nine (solo) Instrument's Op. 24, is for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, and piano. This serial work's analysis became almost as famous as the concerto itself. Highly economical, short, concentrated and free relationship between the intervals take over from tonality as the main organizational principle "pontillistic" style. The clear and transparent frame "Klangfarbenmelodie", is a row, that was distributed among different instruments. So that, several notes can be heard in the same timbre. Like most of Webern works, there are quiet special effects like a whisper, string harmonics, pizzicato, muting, and athematic intevalic cells as the basic structural element. Concerto for Nine Instruments has succeeding series of twelve-tone works. Webern worked for a long time on the Concerto's raw, trying to arrive at an equivalent to the Latin word-square palindrome which reads the same left to right from the top, right to left from the bottom, downwards from the top left, or upwards from the bottom right.

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Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second Viennese School (review)

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Schoenberg's Musical Imagination

Schoenberg's Musical Imagination

An Analysis of Anton Von Webern’s Concerto for Nine Instruments

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