Arnold Schoenberg's Journey Paperback by Allen Shawn

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (2003-06-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 368 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674011014
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in Concert Music Books

Proposing 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 essays—“soundings”—that are both searching and wonderfully suggestive. Approaching Schoenberg primarily from the listener’s point of view, Shawn plunges into the details of some of Schoenberg’s works while at the same time providing a broad overview of his involvements in music, painting, and the history through which he lived.

About the Author

Allen Shawn, a composer, is on the faculty of Bennington College.