Joseph Auner

El presente libro explora el sentido de posibilidad abierto por los desestabilizadores conflictos militares, los levantamientos sociales y los avances tecnológicos de la época. El autor muestra cómo la multiplicidad de estilos musicales puso en cuestión ideas asumidas tradicionalmente en torno a la práctica compositiva, los límites entre música y ruido, o la relación entre compositor, intérprete y espectador. Asimismo pone de manifiesto cómo los compositores y sus obras han desempeñado un papel importante a la hora de definir las ideas de nación, raza y género, así como de configurar el mundo moderno, para bien y para mal. Una nueva visión de la música de nuestra época, que pone de manifiesto el importantísimo papel desempeñado en su desarrollo por los conflictos políticos, los avances tecnológicos y por la propia sociedad en cuyo seno han surgido las obras.

La música en los siglos XX y XXI

Arnold Schoenberg’s close involvement with many of the principal developments of twentieth-century music, most importantly the break with tonality and the creation of twelve-tone composition, generated controversy from the time of his earliest works to the present day. This authoritative new collection of Schoenberg’s essays, letters, literary writings, musical sketches, paintings, and drawings offers fresh insights into the composer’s life, work, and thought. The documents, many previously unpublished or untranslated, reveal the relationships between various aspects of Schoenberg’s activities in composition, music theory, criticism, painting, performance, and teaching. They also show the significance of events in his personal and family life, his evolving Jewish identity, his political concerns, and his close interactions with such figures as Gustav and Alma Mahler, Alban Berg, Wassily Kandinsky, and Thomas Mann. Extensive commentary by Joseph Auner places the documents and materials in context and traces important themes throughout Schoenberg’s career from turn-of-century Vienna to Weimar Berlin to nineteen-fifties Los Angeles.

Documents of a Life

A Schoenberg Reader

Judy Lochhead

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought

The music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Joseph Auner's Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries explores the sense of possibility unleashed by the era's destabilizing military conflicts, social upheavals, and technological advances. Auner shows how the multiplicity of musical styles has called into question traditional assumptions about compositional practice, the boundaries of music and noise, and the relationship among composer, performer, and listener. He also shows how composers and their works have played important roles in defining ideas of nation, race, and gender, and thus in shaping the modern world for better and worse. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense—as sounds notated, performed, and heard—focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.

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