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Here is the first full-scale account of Schoenberg's early tonal works, a rich repertory that music historians have tended to neglect or view as transitional to a mature atonal style.
Between 1893 and 1908, Schoenberg created many genuine masterworks in the genres of Lieder, chamber music, and symphonic music. This book includes detailed critical analyses of such widely admired and performed compositions as Verklärte Nacht, Gurrelieder, and the First Chamber Symphony, as well as discussions of little-known but important songs and instrumental works from the earlier years.
Drawing on original manuscript sources, on Schoenberg's musical environment, on a range of analytical methods, and on Schoenberg's own theories, Frisch traces the development of technique and aesthetic across this critical fifteen-year period of the composer's career. ... Read more

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With language unencumbered by technical jargon, these scholarly writings bring to life the various facets of Schoenberg's creative process and its influence. Topics include biographical essays, surveys of the music from different periods in Schoenberg's career, and essays on the development of Schoenberg's style, on Schoenberg's attitudes toward music, composition and analysis, and the effect of and interpretation of Schoenberg's music. The contributors provide different points of view based on their unique specialties. The resulting breadth of information illuminates distinct aspects of Schoenberg's musical career. ... Read more

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This is a handbook on the performance and interpretation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, op. 21. The book presents a guide for the listener and an aid to the interpreter of the twenty-one melodramas, providing an original English translation of each poem and an analysis of each melodrama. The book makes a case for the importance of the notated pitches in a correct performance of the Sprechstimme. ... Read more

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This collection includes portraits by Edward Weston, George Gershwin, and Schoenberg himself, plus candid camera photographs by Otto Rothschild and two ink drawings by Carlos Dyer. ... Read more

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This was a lecture presented at the University of Cincinnati by renowned Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould. Gould presents a general thesis about Schoenbergs music. There are a few musical examples plus the text & a photo of Gould. ... Read more

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An essential Schoenberg book
The Richard Gerstl affair with Schoenberg's wife is covered in "Arnold Schoenberg's Vienna" by Jane Kallir. Gerstl's weird self-portraits are pictured as well.He did one of the best paintings of Schoenberg, rivalled only by Egon Schiele, and it is the frontispiece of the book.
Many reproductions of other artists, as well as Schoenberg's own works, are included. This book gives you a good visual counterpoint if you are trying to piece together what their epoch was like, and there's lots of inside info. I don't know why some of the sellers are asking around $100; perhaps this is getting scarce. I'd advise getting a copy NOW. ... Read more

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The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, music theorists, and scholars of German literature and of Jewish studies. ... Read more