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Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses

  • Editor: Jenkins, J. Daniel
Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses
The contents - more than eighty items - range from Schoenberg's major analyses to smaller statements, squibs, letter excerpts, marginalia, and ephemera from the composer's archival legacy. Following...

Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses

  • Editor: Jenkins, J. Daniel

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The contents - more than eighty items - range from Schoenberg's major analyses to smaller statements, squibs, letter excerpts, marginalia, and ephemera from the composer's archival legacy. Following...

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In 1950, as Arnold Schoenberg anticipated the publication of a collection of 15 of his most important writings, Style and Idea, he was already at work on a second volume to be called Program Notes. Inspired by this idea, Schoenberg's Program Notes and Musical Analyses can boast the most comprehensive study of the composer's writings about his own music yet published. Schoenberg's insights emerge not only in traditional program notes, but also in letters, sketch materials, pre-concert talks, public lectures, contributions to scholarly journals, newspaper articles, interviews, pedagogical materials, and publicity fliers. The editions of the texts in this collection, based almost exclusively on Schoenberg's original manuscript sources, include many items appearing in print in English for the first time, as well as more familiar texts that preserve musical and textual information eliminated from previous editions. The book also reveals how Schoenberg, desirous to communicate with and educate an audience, took every advantage of changes in technology during his lifetime, utilizing print media, radio broadcasts, record jackets--and had he lived, television--for this purpose. In addition to four chapters in which Schoenberg illuminates 42 of his own compositions, the book begins with chapters on his development and influences, his thoughts about trends in modern music, and, in a nod to the importance of the radio in providing a venue for music analysis, a chapter about Schoenberg's radio broadcasts.

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Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association

The contents - more than eighty items - range from Schoenberg's major analyses to smaller statements, squibs, letter excerpts, marginalia, and ephemera from the composer's archival legacy. Following a preliminary group of essays of a general nature, the writings are sorted by the composition to which they principally refer. This makes the book especially useful since the essays-mostly available though scattered throughout a variety of existing sources-are here presented together and in English translations
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