Style and Idea
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Publisher Description
In these enlightening essays, the Austrian composer and music theorist presents his vision of how music speaks to us and what it is capable of saying.
This book is full of essays which Arnold Schoenberg wrote on style and idea. He talks about the relationship to the text, new and outmoded music, composition in twelve tones, entertaining through composing, the relationship of heart and mind in music, evaluation of music, and other essays.
Customer Reviews
Quotable
This book is so much more than I expected it to be. I expected to get a few ideas that might help me with interpretation of music as a conductor and performer and with creating music as a composer and arranger. Schoenberg's essays offer so much more! This very quotable text offers many insights about how music should be composed, performed, critiqued, and taught. Often, Schoenberg is not telling the reader what to think, but giving the reader questions to think about. This book is full of sparks that might ignite composers, conductors, educators, performers, or listeners to be more engaged in continuing the rich tradition of creating music.