Schoenberg: Night Music'' Verklarte Nacht and Erwartung

"Synthesising and refocusing the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major compositions and highlighting modernist aesthetics that remained fundamental to Schoenberg's musical thought, this handbook reveals how music became a crucial contributor to early twentieth-century modernism in the arts"--

About the author

Arnold Whittall is Professor Emeritus of Musical Theory & Analysis at King's College London. His most recent books are The Wagner Style (2015) and British Music after Britten (2020) and he is co-translator of Pierre Boulez's Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Arnold (Emeritus Whittall, Whittall Arnold, Arnold Whittall
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.11.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781009077361
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0907736-1
• Pages: 180
• Series: New Cambridge Music Handbooks
• Subjects: MUSIC / History & Criticism, Vienna, Modernism, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Romanticism, Composers and songwriters, Music reviews and criticism, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, c 1890 to c 1899, Art music, orchestral and formal music