Discusses the modern expressionist composer's system of atonality and critical reactions to his dissonant works
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From the Back Cover:
In this lucid, revealing book, award-winning pianist and scholar Charles Rosen sheds light on the elusive music of Arnold Schoenberg and his challenge to conventional musical forms. Rosen argues that Schoenberg's music, with its atonality and dissonance, possesses a rare balance of form and emotion, making it the most expressive music ever written. Concise and accessible, this book looks at Schoenberg's ambiguous relation both to the central tradition of Western music and to the complex developments of modernism. Rosen analyzes Schoenberg's expressionist beginnings and how they relate in theory, performance, and musical experience to the system of atonality set forth in the music of Berg, Webern, and Schoenberg himself.
About the Author:
Charles Rosen is professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Music at the University of Chicago.
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- PublisherViking Pr
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0670133167
- ISBN 13 9780670133161
- BindingHardcover
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