Schoenberg and the New Music

Essays by Carl Dahlhaus

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Paperback | 1 May 1989

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This book is a collection of essays, by the leading German musicologist of our day, on one of the most controversial and influential composers of our century: Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg is considered here as a historical figure, as a thinker and theoretician and as a composer whose works may be subjected to technical analysis and/or examined in relation to the history of ideas. Above all, he is considered in the context of the 'New Music', the historical and cultural movement of the first two decades of this century which embrace musicians such as Webern, Schreker and Scriabin (all of whom are allotted individual essays), as well as Schoenberg himself. In addition to historical and analytical essays there are essays of a broader cultural-historical and even sociological import which should interest all those involved with twentieth-century music and ideas.

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'The volume is among [Dahlhaus's] most thought-provoking ... The translators deserve much gratitude for making this most rewarding book available in such clear and readable English.' Oliver Neighbour, Music & Letters

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Translators' introduction	p. vii
'New Music' as historical category	p. 1
Progress and the avant garde	p. 14
Avant garde and popularity	p. 23
New Music and the problem of musical genre	p. 32
Problems of rhythm in the New Music	p. 45
Tonality: structure or process?	p. 62
Schoenberg's poetics of music	p. 73
Schoenberg's aesthetic theology	p. 81
Schoenberg and programme music	p. 94
Musical prose	p. 105
Emancipation of the dissonance	p. 120
What is 'developing variation'?	p. 128
Schoenberg and Schenker	p. 134
Schoenberg's Orchestral Piece Op. 16, No. 3 and the concept of Klangfarbenmelodie	p. 141
'The Obbligato Recitative'	p. 144
Expressive principle and orchestral polyphony in Schoenberg's Erwartung	p. 149
Schoenberg's late works	p. 156
The fugue as prelude: Schoenberg's Genesis composition, Op. 44	p. 169
Rhythmic structures in Webern's Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6	p. 174
Analytical instrumentation: Bach's six-part ricercar as orchestrated by Anton Webern	p. 181
Schreker and modernism: on the dramaturgy of Der ferne Klang	p. 192
Structure and expression in the music of Scriabin	p. 201
Plea for a Romantic category: the concept of the work of art in the newest music	p. 210
On the decline of the concept of the musical work	p. 220
The musical work of art as a subject of sociology	p. 234
Form Translated	p. 248
Composition and improvisation	p. 265
A rejection of material thinking?	p. 274
Notes	p. 288
List of sources	p. 298
Index	p. 301
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Schoenberg and the New Music

Essays by Carl Dahlhaus

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