Schoenberg, Arnold 1874-1951

Style and idea : selected writings of Arnold Schoenberg by Arnold Schoenberg ( Book )
61 editions published between 1950 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,935 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book is full of essays which Arnold Schoenberg wrote on style and idea. He talks about the relationship to the text, new and outmoded music, composition in twelve tones, entertaining through composing, the relationship of heart and mind in music, evaluation of music, and other essays. Arnold Schoenberg (13 September 1874 ' 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He used the spelling SchOnberg until after his move to the United States in 1934 (Steinberg 1995, 463), "in deference to American practice" (Foss 1951, 401), though one writer claims he made the change a year earlier (Ross 2007, 45). Schoenberg was known early in his career for successfully extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic traditions of both Brahms and Wagner, and later and more notably for his pioneering innovations in atonality. During the rise of the Nazi party in Austria, his music was labeled, alongside swing and jazz, as degenerate art. In the 1920s, he developed the twelve-tone technique, a widely influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale. He also coined the term developing variation, and was the first modern composer to embrace ways of developing motifs without resorting to the dominance of a centralized melodic idea. Schoenberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, is among the major landmarks of 20th century musical thought;at least three generations of composers in the European and American traditions have consciously extended his thinking and, in some cases, passionately reacted against it. Schoenberg was also a painter, an important music theorist, and an influential teacher of composition;his students included Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Hanns Eisler, and later John Cage, Lou Harrison, Earl Kim, Wayne Barlow, and many other prominent musicians. Many of Schoenberg's practices, including the formalization of compositional method, and his habit of openly inviting audiences to think analytically, are echoed in avant-garde musical thought throughout the 20th century. His often polemical views of music history and aesthetics were crucial to many of the 20th century's significant musicologists and critics, including Theodor Adorno, Charles Rosen, and Carl Dahlhaus. Schoenberg's archival legacy is collected at the Arnold SchOnberg Center in Vienna

Fünf Orchesterstücke = Five pieces for orchestra, op. 16 by Arnold Schoenberg ( )
195 editions published between 1912 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 1,841 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Gurrelieder by Arnold Schoenberg ( Recording )
165 editions published between 1974 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 1,720 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Structural functions of harmony by Arnold Schoenberg ( Book )
63 editions published between 1946 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 1,677 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds Pierrot lunaire : op. 21 : für eine Sprechstimme, Klavier, Flöte (auch Piccolo), Klarinette (auch Bass-Klarinette), Geige (auch Bratsche), und Violoncell by Arnold Schoenberg ( )
176 editions published between 1912 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 1,659 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Theory of harmony by Arnold Schoenberg ( Book )
48 editions published between 1948 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,563 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Schoenberg reader documents of a life by Joseph Henry Auner ( )
6 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 1,428 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Arnold Schoenberg's close involvement with many of the principal developments of 20th-century music has generated controversy. This collection of his essays, letters, literary writings musical sketches, paintings, and drawings offers insights into the composer's life, work and thought

Gurre-Lieder, für soli, chor und orchester by Arnold Schoenberg ( )
198 editions published between 1900 and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 1,372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fundamentals of musical composition by Arnold Schoenberg ( Book )
55 editions published between 1967 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A basic text for undergraduate work in composition

Gurre-Lieder [für Soli, Chor und Orchester] by Arnold Schoenberg ( Recording )
94 editions published between 1932 and 2004 in 6 languages and held by 1,125 WorldCat member libraries worldwide