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The Idea of Music

Schoenberg and others

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  • © 1985

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  1. Peter Franklin
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Music, the Will and Ideas

    • Peter Franklin
    Pages 1-17

  3. Strauss’s Transfiguration

    • Peter Franklin
    Pages 19-34

  4. The Problem of Doctor Faustus

    • Peter Franklin
    Pages 35-53

  5. Adorno’s Philosophy of Modern Music

    • Peter Franklin
    Pages 55-75

  6. An Essay by Schoenberg

    • Peter Franklin
    Pages 77-90

  7. Chaos, the Machine or the Mystic Word

    • Peter Franklin
    Pages 91-115

  8. Palestrina and the Dangerous Futurists

    • Peter Franklin
    Pages 117-138

  9. Schreker’s Decline

    • Peter Franklin
    Pages 139-160

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 161-188
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Why has modern music evolved as it has? Why is it that certain leading composers from the first half of this century are now considered insignificant, while the responsibility for the development of a musical language of modernism has been attributed to Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School? In this book the author seeks to re-examine Schoenberg's innovations through a reassessment of the nature of artistic expression and artistic truth. Starting from the premise that Austro-German music in the late nineteenth century was dominated by philosophical ideas, he has focused on writing by Schoenberg, Adorno and Thomas Mann, setting these alongside a discussion of the music of Pfitzner, Schreker, Mahler, Richard Strauss and Schoenberg himself, in a compelling argument for a review of the standard historical account of the period.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Idea of Music

  • Book Subtitle: Schoenberg and others

  • Authors: Peter Franklin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17996-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Peter Franklin 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-40027-2Published: 24 October 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-40028-9Published: 24 October 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-17996-1Published: 30 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 188

  • Topics: Music

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