The noted music theorist presents a brilliant and sweeping study of Schoenberg's compositions and his influence on the generations that followed.
A pioneering composer and leader of the Second Viennese School, Arthur Schoenberg was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century classical music. In Schoenberg and His School, composer, conductor, and music theorist Rene Leibowitz offers an authoritative analysis of Schoenberg's groundbreaking contributions to composition theory and Western polyphony.
In addition to detailing his subject's major works, Leibowitz also explores Schoenberg's influence on the works of his two great disciples, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Leibowitz considers how the influences of all three men have, in turn, created new movements within contemporary music today.
Inhalt
Author's Preface to the American Edition
Translator's Preface
Author's Preface
Introduction: The Essential Factors of Occidental Music and the Conditions of Their Comprehension
Part I: Prolegomena to Contemporary Music
Chapter I: Modal Music
Chapter II: Tonal Music
Part II: Arnold Schoenberg
Chapter III: Phases of the Schoenbergian Reactivation of Polyphonic Evolution
Chapter IV: The Suspension of the Tonal System
Chapter V: The Definite Organization of the New World of Sound
Chapter VI: Schoenberg's "American" Works
Part III: Alban Berg
Chapter VII: The Work of Alban Berg
Chapter VIII: Alban Berg and the Essence of Opera
Part IV: Anton Webern
Chapter IX: Webern's Participation in the Schoenbergian Acquisitions
Chapter X: The Projection of the Schoenbergian Acquisitions into the Future
Chapter XI: The Last Works of Webern; the Culmination of Contemporary Polyphony
Part V: The Structure of Contemporary Musical Speech
Chapter XII: General Foundations of the Musical Language
Chapter XIII: The Living Language of Music
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes