Jack Boss: 2 books
Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music
Symmetry and the Musical Idea
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Jack Boss takes a unique approach to analyzing Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone music, adapting the composer's notion of a 'musical idea' - problem, elaboration, solution - as a framework and focusing on the large-scale coherence of the whole piece. The book begins by defining 'musical idea' as a large,...
Schoenberg's Atonal Music
Musical Idea, Basic Image, and Specters of Tonal Function
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Award-winning author Jack Boss returns with the 'prequel' to Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music (Cambridge, 2014) demonstrating that the term 'atonal' is meaningful in describing Schoenberg's music from 1908 to 1921. This book shows how Schoenberg's atonal music can be understood in terms of successions...