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Style and idea : selected writings of Arnold Schoenberg / Arnold Schoenberg ; edited by Leonard Stein ; with translations by Leo Black.

By: Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
Contributor(s): Stein, Leonard [editor.] | Black, Leo.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, 1975Copyright date: ©1975Description: 559 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0571097227 (hardback).Subject(s): Music -- History and criticismDDC classification: 780.8
Contents:
Personal evaluation and retrospect -- Modern music -- Folk-music and nationalism -- Critics and criticism -- Twelve-tone composition -- Theory and composition -- Performance and notation -- Teaching -- Composers -- Social and political matters.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 780.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00168307
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

One of the most influential collections of music ever published, Style and Idea includes Schoenberg's writings about himself and his music as well as studies of many other composers and reflections on art and society.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Personal evaluation and retrospect -- Modern music -- Folk-music and nationalism -- Critics and criticism -- Twelve-tone composition -- Theory and composition -- Performance and notation -- Teaching -- Composers -- Social and political matters.

Dr. Geoffrey Spratt Collection

Author notes provided by Syndetics

An American of Austrian birth, Arnold Schoenberg composed initially in a highly developed romantic style but eventually turned to painting and expressionism. At first he was influenced by Richard Wagner and tried to write in a Wagnerian style. He attracted the attention of Alban Berg and Anton von Webern, with whom he created a new compositional method based on using all 12 half-steps in each octave as an organizing principle, the so-called 12-tone technique. His importance to the development of twentieth-century music is incredible, but the music he composed using this new method is not easily accessible to most concertgoers. (Bowker Author Biography)