Schoenberg's Atonal Music
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Schoenberg's Atonal Music

Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function

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Schoenberg's Atonal Music

Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function

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Award-winning author Jack Boss returns with the 'prequel' to Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014) demonstrating that the term 'atonal' is meaningful in describing Schoenberg's music from 1908 to 1921. This book shows how Schoenberg's atonal music can be understood in terms of successions of pitch and rhythmic motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out the large frameworks of 'musical idea' and 'basic image'. It also explains how tonality, after losing its structural role in Schoenberg's music after 1908, begins to re-appear not long after as an occasional expressive device. Like its predecessor, Schoenberg's Atonal Music contains close readings of representative works, including the Op. 11 and Op. 19 Piano Pieces, the Op. 15 George-Lieder, the monodrama Erwartung, and Pierrot lunaire. These analyses are illustrated by richly detailed musical examples, revealing the underlying logic of some of Schoenberg's most difficult pieces of music.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781108321525
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Music Examples
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. List of Abbreviations and Notational Conventions
  11. 1 Tonal oder Atonal?: The Complicated, Contradictory Nature of Schoenberg’s Middle-Period Music (Op. 11, No. 1)
  12. 2 Piano Pieces Op. 11, Nos. 2 and 3: The Latter Movements of a Remarkably Progressive Cycle
  13. 3 Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Op. 15, Nos. 7 and 11: Basic Images in Two of the Earliest Atonal Pieces
  14. 4 Erwartung, Op. 17: A Leitmotivic Opera and a “Cumulative Setting,” Atomized
  15. 5 Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19 (Nos. 2, 3, and 6): Musical Idea and Basic Image in Miniature
  16. 6 Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, Nos. 1, 14, and 21: Basic Image at the Apex of Its Development
  17. 7 Summary, and the Way Forward to Twelve-Tone Music
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index