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Book Review
Aug. 22nd, 2017 03:12 pmThe Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg
Edited by Jennifer Shaw and Joseph Auner
As is typical of the Cambridge Companion series, this volume about Arnold Schoenberg was a fascinating and often enjoyable read. Given how central Schoenberg is to modern music and how much existing scholarship there is on him, I was happy to find that this book included a very thoughtful and fresh selection of writings about Schoenberg. I especially enjoyed the chapters on Schoenberg's row tables and how he used them, his piano concerto, and his relationship to modernism and metaphysics.
Edited by Jennifer Shaw and Joseph Auner
As is typical of the Cambridge Companion series, this volume about Arnold Schoenberg was a fascinating and often enjoyable read. Given how central Schoenberg is to modern music and how much existing scholarship there is on him, I was happy to find that this book included a very thoughtful and fresh selection of writings about Schoenberg. I especially enjoyed the chapters on Schoenberg's row tables and how he used them, his piano concerto, and his relationship to modernism and metaphysics.
