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Schoenberg / edited by Merle Armitage ; articles by Arnold Schoenberg, Erwin Stein, Cesar Saerchinger, Roger Sessions, Carl Engel, Louis Danz, Franz Werfel, Otto Klemperer, Nicholas Slonimsky, Ernst Krenek, Richard Buhlig, Paul Stefan, Boris de Schloezer, Eduard Steuermann, Jose Rodriguez, Paul Amadeus Pisk, Adolph Weiss, Berthold Viertel, Merle Armitage ; foreword by Leopold Stokowski ; affirmations by Arnold Schoenberg ; a bibliography of Schoenberg works ; portraits by Edward Weston and George Gershwin ; a self portrait by Arnold Schoenberg ; candid camera photographs by Otto Rothschild and two ink drawings by Carlos Dyer.

Author/creator Armitage, Merle, 1893-1975 editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoWestport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1977, ©1937.
Description319 pages, 5 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
Composers--Austria.
Other author/creatorArmitage, Merle, 1893-1975 editor.
Other author/creatorStokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977, writer of foreword.
Other author/creatorWeston, Edward, 1886-1958 illustrator.
Other author/creatorGershwin, George, 1898-1937, illustrator.
Contents Foreword / Leopold Stokowski -- Transition / Merle Armitage -- Music in crisis / Roger Sessions -- The way of understanding / Boris de Schloezer -- The twelve-tone series / Adolph Weiss -- Arnold Schoenberg / Ernst Krenek -- The truth about Schoenberg / Cesar Saerchinger -- Schoenberg and the classical tradition / Richard Buhlig -- Schoenberg's sound / Erwin Stein -- The piano music of Schoenberg / Eduard Steuermann -- Conversation with a legend / Jose Rodriguez -- Schoenberg and "sentiment" / Carl Engel -- Schoenberg's "Die Jakobsleiter" / Berthold Viertel -- My recollections of Schoenberg / Otto Klemperer -- Schoenberg's twelve-tone operas / Paul Amadeus Pisk -- Schoenberg's operas / Paul Stefan -- Tribute / Franz Werfel -- Schoenberg the inevitable / Louis Danz -- A Schoenberg chronology / Nicholas Slonimsky -- Affirmations / extracts from interviews -- Tonality and form / Arnold Schoenberg -- Problems of harmony / Arnold Schoenberg -- Compositions by Arnold Schoenberg.
General noteReprint of the edition published by Schirmer, New York.
LCCN 79106709
ISBN0837134390
ISBN9780837134390

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Music Music Stacks ML410.S283 A3 1977 ✔ Available Place Hold
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