The Idea of Music: Schoenberg and Others

by Peter Franklin

Book Overview

Why has modern music evolved as it has? Why is it that certain leading composers from the first half of this century are now considered insignificant, while the responsibility for the development of a musical language of modernism has been attributed to Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School? In this book the author seeks to re-examine Schoenberg's innovations through a reassessment of the nature of artistic expression and artistic truth. Starting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333400283
• ISBN13: 9780333400289
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"