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Constructive dissonance : Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture

Title
Constructive dissonance : Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture / edited by Juliane Brand and Christopher Hailey.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Brand, Juliane.
  • Hailey, Christopher.
Description
xviii, 232 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
Summary
  • 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.
Subject
Note
  • Papers delivered at a conference held at the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, University of Southern California, Nov. 15-17, 1991.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [xvii]-xviii) and index.
Contents
  • Ch. 1. Music and the Critique of Culture: Arnold Schoenberg, Heinrich Schenker, and the Emergence of Modernism in Fin de Siecle Vienna / Leon Botstein -- Ch. 2. Assimilation and the Emancipation of Historical Dissonance / Alexander L. Ringer -- Ch. 3. Evolving Perceptions of Kandinsky and Schoenberg: Toward the Ethnic Roots of the "Outsider" / Peg Weiss -- Ch. 4. The Emigre Experience: Schoenberg in America / Alan Lessem -- Ch. 5. Schoenberg and the Origins of Atonality / Ethan Haimo -- Ch. 6. The Refractory Masterpiece: Toward an Interpretation of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony, op. 9 / Walter Frisch -- Ch. 7. Whose Idea was Erwartung? / Bryan R. Simms -- Ch. 8. "Heart and Brain in Music": The Genesis of Schoenberg's Die gluckliche Hand / Joseph Auner -- Ch. 9. Schoenberg's Incomplete Works and Fragments / Jan Maegaard -- Ch. 10. Schoenberg's Philosophy of Composition: Thoughts on the "Musical Idea and Its Presentation" / Patricia Carpenter and Severine Neff --
  • Ch. 11. Schoenberg and the Canon: An Evolving Heritage / Christopher Hailey -- Ch. 12. Schoenberg's Concept of Art in Twentieth-Century Music History / Hermann Danuser -- Ch. 13. Schoenberg and Present-Day Theory and Practice / Jonathan Dunsby -- Ch. 14. Schoenberg the Contemporary: A View from Behind / Reinhold Brinkmann.
ISBN
0520203143 (cloth)
LCCN
96024712
OCLC
ocm34875736
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries