{"product_id":"arnold-schoenbergs-journey-9780674011014","title":"Arnold Schoenbergs Journey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProposing that Arnold Schoenberg has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's fascinating world in a series of linked essayssoundingsthat are both searching and wonderfully suggestive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of elegant and persuasive essays: analytic discussions of single works and vivid accounts of phases and facets of Schoenberg’s life...Shawn is an engaging writer. -- Anthony Tommasini * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the best things to have happened to the composer in a long time. Allen Shawn, a composer himself, is an admirer of Schoenberg. He gives us the whole man seen from within his cultural environment and from within his music too...Shawn invites us to share with him a spontaneous and warm response to Schoenberg’s music rather than a purely analytical one...Shawn is exceptionally felicitous at finding words for music, which makes him an ideal companion on this journey of discovery. -- George Perle * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eNothing in recent years has filled me with an urgent desire to re-engage with [Schoenberg’s music] so much as this sensitive and personal book. -- Bayan Northcott * BBC Music Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword    Introduction: Six Little Piano Pieces    BRIDGE PASSAGE, 1874-1908   1. First Loves    2. Transfigured Night   3. Dawn: The Gurre-Lieder   4. Berlin Cabaret   5. Coming Apart    6. An Inner Compulsion     A NEW FORM OF EXPRESSION, 1909-13    7. Farben   8. Listening to Five Pieces for Orchestra    9. Paths to (and in) Erwartung    10. Wrong Notes    11. Six Little Pieces    12. Theory of Harmony    13. Pierrot   14. Die gluckliche Hand     SILENCE, ORDER, AND TERROR, 1914-33    15. Incident at Mattsee    16. Critics and Disciples   17. A Clearing in the Forest: Twelve-Tone Music    18. Satires   19. Catastrophe   20. Moses and Arnold    AMERICA, 1933-51   21. Exodus    22. 1940: Stravinsky and Schoenberg    23. Games    24. On Being Short    25. Piano Concerto    26. Death and Rebirth    27. Seventy-fifth Birthday     AFTERLIFE   28. Death and Rebirth II    29. Writings about Schoenberg   30. Last Notes: Portrait in Retrograde    Suggested Readings    Notes   Acknowledgments   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403517141335,"sku":"9780674011014","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674011014.jpg?v=1730483703","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/arnold-schoenbergs-journey-9780674011014","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}