Schoenberg and the New Music

by Carl Dahlhaus

Book Overview

This book is a collection of essays, by the leading German musicologist of our day, on one of the most controversial and influential composers of our century: Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg is considered here as a historical figure, as a thinker and theoretician and as a composer whose works may be subjected to technical analysis and/or examined in relation to the history of ideas. Above all, he is considered in the context of the 'New Music', the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521337836
• ISBN13: 9780521337830
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"