Schoenberg and the New Music

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.