Schoenberg's New World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schoenberg's New World write by Sabine Feisst. This book was released on 2017-01-01. Schoenberg's New World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arnold Schoenberg was a polarizing figure in twentieth century music, and his works and ideas have had considerable and lasting impact on Western musical life. A refugee from Nazi Europe, he spent an important part of his creative life in the United States (1933-1951), where he produced a rich variety of works and distinguished himself as an influential teacher. However, while his European career has received much scholarly attention, surprisingly little has been written about the genesis and context of his works composed in America, his interactions with Americans and other émigrés, and the substantial, complex, and fascinating performance and reception history of his music in this country. Author Sabine Feisst illuminates Schoenberg's legacy and sheds a corrective light on a variety of myths about his sojourn. Looking at the first American performances of his works and the dissemination of his ideas among American composers in the 1910s, 1920s and early 1930s, she convincingly debunks the myths surrounding Schoenberg's alleged isolation in the US. Whereas most previous accounts of his time in the US have portrayed him as unwilling to adapt to American culture, this book presents a more nuanced picture, revealing a Schoenberg who came to terms with his various national identities in his life and work. Feisst dispels lingering negative impressions about Schoenberg's teaching style by focusing on his methods themselves as well as on his powerful influence on such well-known students as John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Dika Newlin. Schoenberg's influence is not limited to those who followed immediately in his footsteps-a wide range of composers, from Stravinsky adherents to experimentalists to jazz and film composers, were equally indebted to Schoenberg, as were key figures in music theory like Milton Babbitt and David Lewin. In sum, Schoenberg's New World contributes to a new understanding of one of the most important pioneers of musical modernism.
Schoenberg: Why He Matters
Schoenberg: Why He Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schoenberg: Why He Matters write by Harvey Sachs. This book was released on 2023-08-15. Schoenberg: Why He Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year “[A]n immensely valuable source for anyone desiring an accessible overview of this endlessly controversial and chronically misunderstood giant of 20th-century music.” —John Adams, New York Times Book Review, cover review An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers. In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative account, the acclaimed biographer of Toscanini finally restores Schoenberg to his rightful place in the canon, revealing him as one of the twentieth century’s most influential composers and teachers. Sachs shows how Schoenberg, a thorny character who composed thorny works, raged against the “Procrustean bed” of tradition. Defying his critics—among them the Nazis, who described his music as “degenerate”—he constantly battled the anti-Semitism that eventually precipitated his flight from Europe to Los Angeles. Yet Schoenberg, synthesizing Wagnerian excess with Brahmsian restraint, created a shock wave that never quite subsided, and, as Sachs powerfully argues, his compositions must be confronted by anyone interested in the past, present, or future of Western music.
Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism
Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism write by Kenneth H. Marcus. This book was released on 2016-01-14. Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kenneth H. Marcus shows how Schoenberg played a vital role in Southern California Modernism through his pedagogy, compositions, and texts.
Arnold Schoenberg's Journey
Arnold Schoenberg's Journey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arnold Schoenberg's Journey write by Allen Shawn. This book was released on 2003. Arnold Schoenberg's Journey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this text, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgements about Arnold Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's world in a series of linked essays that are searching and suggestive. Approaching Schoenberg primarily from a listener's point of view, Shawn plunges into the details of some of Schoenberg's works while at the same time providing a broad overview of his involvements in music, painting and the history through which he lived.
Style and Idea
Style and Idea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Style and Idea write by Arnold Schoenberg. This book was released on 1984. Style and Idea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most influential collections of music ever published, Style and Idea includes Schoenberg’s writings about himself and his music as well as studies of many other composers and reflections on art and society.
