Schoenberg's Musical Imagination

by Michael Cherlin

Book Overview

No composer was more responsible for changes in the landscape of twentieth-century music than Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and no other composer's music inspired a commensurate quantity and quality of technical description in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet there is still little understanding of the correlations between Schoenberg's musical thought and larger questions of cultural significance in and since his time: the formalistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521851661
• ISBN13: 9780521851664
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 2.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 9.9"