Schoenberg and the New Music
Essays by Carl Dahlhaus
- Author: Dahlhaus, Carl
- Translator: Clayton, Alfred
- Translator: Puffett, Derrick
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Contents
- Translators' introduction
- 1. 'New Music' as historical category
- 2. Progress and the avant garde
- 3. Avant garde and popularity
- 4. New Music and the problem of musical genre
- 5. Problems of rhythm in the New Music
- 6. Tonality: structure or process?
- 7. Schoenberg's poetics of music
- 8. Schoenberg's aesthetic theology
- 9. Schoenberg and programme music
- 10. Musical prose
- 11. Emancipation of the dissonance
- 12. What is 'developing variation'?
- 13. Schoenberg and Schenker
- 14. Schoenberg's Orchestral Piece Op. 16, No. 3 and the concept of Klangfarbenmelodie
- 15. 'The Obbligato Recitative'
- 16. Expressive principle and orchestral polyphony in Schoenberg's Erwartung
- 17. Schoenberg's late works
- 18. The fugue as prelude: Schoenberg's Genesis composition, Op. 44
- 19. Rhythmic structures in Webern's Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6
- 20. Analytical instrumentation: Bach's six-part ricercar as orchestrated by Anton Webern
- 21. Schreker and modernism: on the dramaturgy of Der ferne Klang
- 22. Structure and expression in the music of Scriabin
- 23. Plea for a Romantic category: the concept of the work of art in the newest music
- 24. On the decline of the concept of the musical work
- 25. The musical work of art as a subject of sociology
- 26. Form Translated by Stephen Hinton
- 27. Composition and improvisation
- 28. A rejection of material thinking?
- Notes
- List of sources
- Index.