Arnold Schoenbergs Journey by Allen Shawn (English) Paperback Book

Description: Arnold Schoenbergs Journey by Allen Shawn Proposing that Arnold Schoenberg has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenbergs place in music history to explore the composers fascinating world in a series of linked essays—"soundings"—that are both searching and wonderfully suggestive. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in Concert Music BooksProposing that Arnold Schoenberg has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenbergs place in music history to explore the composers fascinating world in a series of linked essays-"soundings"-that are both searching and wonderfully suggestive. Approaching Schoenberg primarily from the listeners point of view, Shawn plunges into the details of some of Schoenbergs works while at the same time providing a broad overview of his involvements in music, painting, and the history through which he lived. Author Biography Allen Shawn, a composer, is on the faculty of Bennington College. Table of Contents Foreword Introduction: Six Little Piano Pieces BRIDGE PASSAGE, 1874-1908 1. First Loves 2. Transfigured Night 3. Dawn: The Gurre-Lieder 4. Berlin Cabaret 5. Coming Apart 6. An Inner Compulsion A NEW FORM OF EXPRESSION, 1909-13 7. Farben 8. Listening to Five Pieces for Orchestra 9. Paths to (and in) Erwartung 10. Wrong Notes 11. Six Little Pieces 12. Theory of Harmony 13. Pierrot 14. Die gluckliche Hand SILENCE, ORDER, AND TERROR, 1914-33 15. Incident at Mattsee 16. Critics and Disciples 17. A Clearing in the Forest: Twelve-Tone Music 18. Satires 19. Catastrophe 20. Moses and Arnold AMERICA, 1933-51 21. Exodus 22. 1940: Stravinsky and Schoenberg 23. Games 24. On Being Short 25. Piano Concerto 26. Death and Rebirth 27. Seventy-fifth Birthday AFTERLIFE 28. Death and Rebirth II 29. Writings about Schoenberg 30. Last Notes: Portrait in Retrograde Suggested Readings Notes Acknowledgments Index Review A collection of elegant and persuasive essays: analytic discussions of single works and vivid accounts of phases and facets of Schoenbergs life...Shawn is an engaging writer. -- Anthony Tommasini * New York Times *One of the best things to have happened to the composer in a long time. Allen Shawn, a composer himself, is an admirer of Schoenberg. He gives us the whole man seen from within his cultural environment and from within his music too...Shawn invites us to share with him a spontaneous and warm response to Schoenbergs music rather than a purely analytical one...Shawn is exceptionally felicitous at finding words for music, which makes him an ideal companion on this journey of discovery. -- George Perle * Wall Street Journal *Nothing in recent years has filled me with an urgent desire to re-engage with [Schoenbergs music] so much as this sensitive and personal book. -- Bayan Northcott * BBC Music Magazine * Review Quote One of the best things to have happened to the composer in a long time. Allen Shawn, a composer himself, is an admirer of Schoenberg. He gives us the whole man seen from within his cultural environment and from within his music too...Shawn invites us to share with him a spontaneous and warm response to Schoenbergs music rather than a purely analytical one...Shawn is exceptionally felicitous at finding words for music, which makes him an ideal companion on this journey of discovery. Details ISBN0674011015 Author Allen Shawn Short Title ARNOLD SCHOENBERGS JOURNEY Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674011015 ISBN-13 9780674011014 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2003 Imprint Harvard University Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States DEWEY 780.92 Pages 368 DOI 10.1604/9780674011014 UK Release Date 2003-05-30 AU Release Date 2003-05-30 NZ Release Date 2003-05-30 US Release Date 2003-05-30 Publication Date 2003-05-30 Illustrations 22 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 124 musical examples Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:8304108;

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