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1	Arnold Schoenberg's Journey more books like this by Allen Shawn add to wishlist Allen Shawn explores the life of Arnold Schoenberg, choosing to tell the composer's story not in an academic, chronological way but as a series of offbeat, personal linked essays that look at Schoenberg's many facets, including the uneasy blend of radical and traditionalist that infuses his works. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Composition with twelve notes related only to one another more books like this by Josef Rufer add to wishlist see all copies from $12.50! first editions
3	Arnold Schoenberg more books like this by Charles Rosen add to wishlist In this lucid, revealing book, award-winning pianist and scholar Charles Rosen sheds light on the elusive music of Arnold Schoenberg and his challenge to conventional musical forms. Rosen argues that Schoenberg's music, with its atonality and dissonance, possesses a rare balance of form and emotion, making it, according to Rosen, "the most ... see all copies from $3.47! new only from $16.75! \| first editions
4	Schoenberg, Kandinsky and the Blue Rider more books like this by Fred Wasserman, Scala Publishers (Creator) add to wishlist This volume features major works by Kandinsky and other members of the Blue Rider group, including August Macke, Gabriele Munter, Alexej von Jawlensky, David Burliuk and Albert Bloch. see all copies from $41.00! new only from $82.11!
5	Arnold Schoenberg more books like this by H. H. Stuckenschmidt add to wishlist The author, one of the foremost German musical figures, presents Schoenberg as a composer, teacher and man. He shows the immense difficulties he was forced to overcome, and the reactions and influence his work created. The artist's personal life is related to his music, his marriages, his religious conversion, and his travels from Vienna to Berlin ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $144.13!
6	Schoenberg more books like this by Malcolm MacDonald add to wishlist In this completely rewritten and updated edition of his long-indispensable study, Malcolm MacDonald takes advantage of 30 years of recent scholarship, new biographical information, and deeper understanding of Schoenberg's aims and significance to produce a superb guide to Schoenberg's life and work. MacDonald demonstrates the indissoluble links ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $24.96! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Four Jews on Parnassus: A Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Sch'onberg more books like this by Carl Djerassi add to wishlist This book features a CD of rarely performed music, including a specially commissioned rap by Erik Weiner of Walter Benjamin's "Thesis on the Philosophy of History."Theodor W. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Walter Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish German, Gershom Scholem was a committed Zionist, and Arnold ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $29.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Schoenberg's Musical Imagination more books like this by Michael Cherlin add to wishlist No composer was more responsible for changes in the landscape of twentieth-century music than Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and no other composer's music inspired a commensurate quantity and quality of technical description in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet there is still little understanding of the correlations between Schoenberg's ... see all copies from $42.11! new only from $42.11! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Schoenberg's Transformation of Musical Language more books like this by Ethan Haimo add to wishlist Arnold Schoenberg is widely regarded as one of the most significant and innovative composers of the twentieth century. It is commonly assumed that Schoenberg's music divides into three periods: tonal, atonal, and serial. It is also assumed that Schoenberg's atonal music made a revolutionary break with the past, particularly in terms of harmonic ... see all copies from $36.22! new only from $36.22! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky more books like this by Benjamin Boretz add to wishlist see all copies from $7.19! new only from $16.04! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Schoenberg and His World more books like this by Professor Walter Frisch (Editor) add to wishlist As the twentieth century draws to a close, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is being acknowledged as one of its most significant and multifaceted composers. "Schoenberg and His World" explores the richness of his genius through commentary and documents. Marilyn McCoy opens the volume with a concise chronology, based on the latest scholarship, of ... see all copies from $18.95! new only from $27.18! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Schoenberg and the New Music more books like this by Derrick Puffett (Translator), Alfred Clayton (Translator), Carl Dahlhaus (Notes by) add to wishlist This book is a collection of essays, by the leading German musicologist of our day, on one of the most controversial and influential composers of our century: Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg is considered here as a historical figure, as a thinker and theoretician and as a composer whose works may be subjected to technical analysis and/or examined in ... see all copies from $32.00! new only from $32.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music more books like this by Klara Moricz add to wishlist "Jewish Identities" mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about 'Jewish music,' which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. Klara Moricz scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity and reorders ideas about ... see all copies from $31.35! new only from $49.95! \| SVS
14 view cover	Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second Viennese School more books like this by Bryan R Simms (Editor) add to wishlist A study of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, modern composers living in Vienna near the turn of the 20th century, in a broad artistic context. It illustrates how their works grew from earlier Viennese musical developments. Presenting an analysis of a central school of modern musical composition, the essays compare the artists' music to that of the non ... see all copies from $65.00! new only from $111.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908-1923 more books like this by Bryan R SIMMs add to wishlist In the years from 1908 to 1923, Arnold Schoenberg developed a compositional strategy that moved beyond the accepted concepts and practices of Western tonality. Pieces from this period, such as Pierrot Lunaire and Erwartung, remain masterpieces of the modern repertoire. The lasting importance of Schoenberg's atonal music is reflected in the very ... see all copies from $59.00! new only from $78.62! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Arnold Schoenberg: Notes, Sets, Forms more books like this by Silvina Milstein add to wishlist In this thought-provoking study, Silvina Milstein proposes a reconstruction of Schoenberg's conception of compositional process in his twelve-tone works, which challenges the prevalent view that this music is to be appropriately understood exclusively in terms of the new method. Her claim that in Schoenberg we encounter hierarchical pitch ... see all copies from $28.18! new only from $28.18! \| SVS
17	Schoenberg and His School: The Contemporary Stage of the Language of Music more books like this by Rene Leibowitz add to wishlist see all copies from $3.56! first editions
18 view cover	Letters more books like this by Arnold Schoenberg add to wishlist see all copies from $9.95! first editions
19 view cover	Arnold Schoenberg Companion more books like this by Walter B Bailey (Editor) add to wishlist With language unencumbered by technical jargon, these scholarly writings bring to life the various facets of Schoenberg's creative process and its influence. Topics include biographical essays, surveys of the music from different periods in Schoenberg's career, and essays on the development of Schoenberg's style, on Schoenberg's attitudes toward ... see all copies from $88.00! new only from $93.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Philosophy of New Music more books like this by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Professor Robert Hullot-Kentor (Translator) add to wishlist In 1947 Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy of New Music. Intensely polemical from its first publication, every aspect of this work was met with extreme reactions, from stark dismissal to outrage. Even ... see all copies from $24.17! new only from $24.17! \| SVS
21 view cover	Schonberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter more books like this by Konrad Boehmer (Editor) add to wishlist The historic encounter around 1911 between the composer Arnold Schonberg and the painter Wassily Kandinsky occurred at a moment when the first wild revolts against traditional art - Dada and Futurism - had just manifested themselves. This volume is a collection of the papers presented at the conference on Schonberg and Kandinsky at the Royal ... see all copies from $76.52! new only from $86.13!
22	Schoenberg Chamber Music more books like this by Arnold Whittall add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
23	Schoenberg Remembered: Diaries and Recollections, 1938-1976 more books like this by Dika Newlin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	Music of My Future: The Schoenberg Quartets and Trio more books like this by Reinhold Brinkmann (Editor), Christoph Wolff (Editor) add to wishlist Schoenberg's quartets and trio, composed over a nearly forty-year period, occupy a central position among twentieth-century chamber music. This volume, based on papers presented at a conference in honour of David Lewin, collects a wide range of approaches to Schoenberg's pieces. The first part of the book provides a historical context to these ... see all copies from $25.93! new only from $25.93! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908 more books like this by Professor Walter Frisch add to wishlist Between 1893 and 1908, Arnold Schoenberg created many masterpieces in the genres of Lieder, chamber music and symphonic music. This account of his early tonal works, traces the development of technique and aesthetic across this critical 15-year period of the composer's career, providing detailed analyses of compositions such as "Pelleas und ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $79.59! \| first editions

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