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Presents a study of key musical works of the twentieth century. Here, the author brings a range of social and cultural questions to bear on the analysis of two composers he saw as polar opposites, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.

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"[Adorno's] interest in Schoenberg and Benjamin was combined in his best known and most influential book...which set out to do for contemporary music what Benjamin had done for seventeenth-century German tragedy."--The New York Review of Books

Table of Contents
Translator's Introduction; Preface; Introduction; Schoenberg and Progress; Stravinsky and Restoration; Notes.

Philosophy of Modern Music

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A Paperback by Theodor W. Adorno, Anne G. Mitchell, Wesley V. Blomster

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    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    Publication Date: 1/11/2007 12:10:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780826499608, 978-0826499608
    ISBN10: 0826499600
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Presents a study of key musical works of the twentieth century. Here, the author brings a range of social and cultural questions to bear on the analysis of two composers he saw as polar opposites, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.

    Trade Review
    "[Adorno's] interest in Schoenberg and Benjamin was combined in his best known and most influential book...which set out to do for contemporary music what Benjamin had done for seventeenth-century German tragedy."--The New York Review of Books

    Table of Contents
    Translator's Introduction; Preface; Introduction; Schoenberg and Progress; Stravinsky and Restoration; Notes.

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