Schoenberg: ‘Night Music' – Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung
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2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51409-2 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51409-2 (ISBN)
Synthesising and refocusing the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major compositions and highlighting modernist aesthetics that remained fundamental to Schoenberg's musical thought, this handbook reveals how music became a crucial contributor to early twentieth-century modernism in the arts.
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser of musical puzzles. Yet to claim that in his music he replaced tonality with its absolute opposite, atonality, as the twelve-tone method swept away all trace of traditional harmonic and thematic processes, is as misleading as to argue that romantic warmth and humanity morphed into the purest and most austerely modernistic spirituality. This handbook refocuses the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major compositions; the expressive character of those relatively early works which centre on nocturnal images of darkness and despair is at its most original and powerful in Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung, where the dramatic interplay between stabilising continuities and disorientating fragmentations reveals the elements of a modernist aesthetics that remained fundamental to Schoenberg's musical thought.
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser of musical puzzles. Yet to claim that in his music he replaced tonality with its absolute opposite, atonality, as the twelve-tone method swept away all trace of traditional harmonic and thematic processes, is as misleading as to argue that romantic warmth and humanity morphed into the purest and most austerely modernistic spirituality. This handbook refocuses the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major compositions; the expressive character of those relatively early works which centre on nocturnal images of darkness and despair is at its most original and powerful in Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung, where the dramatic interplay between stabilising continuities and disorientating fragmentations reveals the elements of a modernist aesthetics that remained fundamental to Schoenberg's musical thought.
Arnold Whittall is Professor Emeritus of Musical Theory & Analysis at King's College London. His most recent books are The Wagner Style (2015) and British Music after Britten (2020) and he is co-translator of Pierre Boulez's Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures (2018).
1. Prelude; 2. Verklärte nacht; 3. Before erwartung; 4. Erwartung; 5. After erwartung.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.11.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Cambridge Music Handbooks |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| ISBN-10 | 1-316-51409-9 / 1316514099 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-316-51409-2 / 9781316514092 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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