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"Speechsong is a work of imaginative musicology that addresses the engimas of Schoenberg and Gould, of singing and speaking, of Moses und Aron, of technology and being. Its point of departure is Gould’s last public performance, given at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, where a number of Schoenberg’s works were performed during his California exile. It is here, after that last performance, that Gould encounters a spectral Schoenberg in a staged conversation that explores Schoenberg’s travails in rethinking the fundamentals of Western music. This first part of Speechsong recalls Schoenberg’s operatic masterpiece, Moses und Aron, in which the divinely inspired Moses seeks the help of his brother to relate his vision: Moses speaks and Aron sings. Written as a twelve-tone composition, the opera produces an involution of harmonics that was Schoenberg’s response to Richard Wagner’s diatribes about synagogue noise. For Gould, Schoenberg’s is a formalist revolution; Schoenberg’s life, however, suggests that it was a search for personal and political freedom.The second half of Speechsong is a critical essay in twelve “moments” that re-articulates the staged conversation as an inquiry into the intersections of music and mediation. Gould’s turn to the recording studio emerges as a post-humanist inquiry into recorded music as a repudiation of the virtuoso tradition and a liberation from unitary notions of selfhood. Schoenberg’s exodus from musical tradition likewise takes his twelve-tone invention beyond musical performance, where it emerges, along with Gould’s soundscapes, as a prototype of acoustic installations by artists such as Stephen Prina and Cory Arcangel. In these works, music abandons the concert hall and the exigencies of harmony for an acoustic space that embraces at once the recordings of Gould and the performances of Schoenberg that have found their home on the internet."

20th century & contemporary classical music --- Schoenberg, Arnold, --- Gould, Glenn. --- Gould, Glenn --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Glenn Gould --- Arnold Schoenberg --- music compositio --- radio --- twentieth-century music --- recording techniques --- Sprechstimme

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Joy H. Calico examines the cultural history of postwar Europe through the lens of the performance and reception of Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw-a short but powerful work, she argues, capable of irritating every exposed nerve in postwar Europe. Schoenberg, a Jewish composer whose oeuvre had been one of the Nazis' prime exemplars of entartete (degenerate) music, immigrated to the United States and became an American citizen. Both admired and reviled as a pioneer of dodecaphony, he wrote this twelve-tone piece about the Holocaust in three languages for an American audience. This book investigates the meanings attached to the work as it circulated through Europe during the early Cold War in a kind of symbolic musical remigration, focusing on six case studies: West Germany, Austria, Norway, East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Each case is unique, informed by individual geopolitical concerns, but this analysis also reveals common themes in anxieties about musical modernism, Holocaust memory and culpability, the coexistence of Jews and former Nazis, anti-Semitism, dislocation, and the presence of occupying forces on both sides of the Cold War divide.

MUSIC / History & Criticism. --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical. --- Schoenberg, Arnold, --- Shenberg, Arnolʹd, --- Schönberg, Arnold, --- Schenberg, A. --- Shenberg, A. --- שנברג, ארנולד --- Appreciation --- Music --- History --- Genres & Styles --- Classical. --- Europe --- General. --- History & Criticism. --- Schönberg, Arnold --- 20th century world history. --- a survivor in warsaw. --- anti semitism. --- arnold schoenberg. --- austria. --- austrian composer. --- cantata. --- chromatic scale. --- cold war. --- composer. --- cultural history. --- czechoslovakia. --- death camps. --- death. --- degenerate music. --- dodecaphony. --- east germany. --- geopolitical concerns. --- geopolitics. --- holocaust victims. --- holocaust. --- jewish composer. --- lens of performance. --- mass death. --- memory. --- music. --- musical modernism. --- nazi. --- norway. --- poland. --- postwar europe. --- reception studies. --- second world war. --- twelve tone technique. --- west germany. --- world history.

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Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile community in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. This complete edition of their correspondence provides a glimpse inside their private and public lives and culminates in the famous dispute over Mann's novel Doctor Faustus. In the thick of the controversy was Theodor Adorno, then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the Faustus affair would make him an enemy of both families. Gathered here for the first time in English, the letters in this essential volume are complemented by diary entries, related articles, and other primary source materials, as well as an introduction by German studies scholar Adrian Daub that contextualizes the impact these two great artists had on twentieth-century thought and culture.

Mann, Thomas, --- Schoenberg, Arnold, --- Shenberg, Arnolʹd, --- Schönberg, Arnold, --- Schenberg, A. --- Shenberg, A. --- שנברג, ארנולד --- Mann, Paul Thomas --- Mann, Thomas --- マン・トオマス --- マン, トーマス --- MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician. --- Doktor Faustus (Mann, Thomas). --- Man, Tomas, --- Man, Tʻomasŭ, --- Mān, Tūmās, --- Manas, Tomas, --- Mani, Tʻomas, --- Mann, Paul Thomas, --- Mann, Tomas, --- Mann, Tomasz, --- Thomas, Paul, --- Манн, Томас, --- מאן, תומאס --- מאן, תומאס, --- מאן, טאמאס --- מאן, טאמאס, --- מן, תומס --- מן, טומס --- מן, טומס, --- مان، توماس --- Schönberg, Arnold --- 20th century literature. --- 20th century music. --- argument. --- arnold schoenberg. --- artists. --- controversy. --- correspondence. --- culture. --- diary entries. --- doctor faustus. --- enemies. --- famous dispute. --- famous fights. --- faustus affair. --- german exile. --- letters. --- los angeles. --- nazi era. --- philosopher. --- private lives. --- public lives. --- theodor adorno. --- thomas mann.

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This volume shows Charles Ives in the context of his world in a number of revealing ways. Five new essays examine Ives's relationships to European music and to American music, politics, business, and landscape. J. Peter Burkholder shows Ives as a composer well versed in four distinctive musical traditions who blended them in his mature music. Leon Botstein explores the paradox of how, in the works of Ives and Mahler, musical modernism emerges from profoundly antimodern sensibilities. David Michael Hertz reveals unsuspected parallels between one of Ives's most famous pieces, the Concord Piano Sonata, and the piano sonatas of Liszt and Scriabin. Michael Broyles sheds new light on Ives's political orientation and on his career in the insurance business, and Mark Tucker shows the importance for Ives of his vacations in the Adirondacks and the representation of that landscape in his music. The remainder of the book presents documents that illuminate Ives's personal life. A selection of some sixty letters to and from Ives and his family, edited and annotated by Tom C. Owens, is the first substantial collection of Ives correspondence to be published. Two sections of reviews and longer profiles published during his lifetime highlight the important stages in the reception of Ives's music, from his early works through the premieres of his most important compositions to his elevation as an almost mythic figure with a reputation among some critics as America's greatest composer.

Ives, Charles, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Correspondence. --- Critique et interprétation --- Correspondance --- Critique et interprétation --- Ives, Charles Edward --- Criticism and interpretation --- Correspondence --- Ives, Charles, - 1874-1954 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Ives, Charles, - 1874-1954 - Correspondence. --- Composers --- Muziekwerken. --- Aufsatzsammlung --- Ives, Charles. --- Ives, Charles --- Critique et interpretation. --- Aaron Copland. --- Alexander Scriabin. --- American Tune. --- American popular music. --- Antonín Dvorák. --- Arnold Schoenberg. --- Art music. --- Atonality. --- Bernard Herrmann. --- Career. --- Carl Ruggles. --- Charles Ives. --- Choir. --- Church music. --- Claude Debussy. --- Composer. --- Contemporary classical music. --- Creative work. --- Dissonant. --- Dudley Buck. --- E. Robert Schmitz. --- Early music. --- Entrance (musician). --- Ernest Walker (composer). --- Example (musician). --- Experimental music. --- Felix Mendelssohn. --- For Example. --- Franz Liszt. --- Gilbert and Sullivan. --- Gospel Song (19th century). --- Gustav Mahler. --- Half note. --- Harry Lauder. --- Hear the Music. --- Henry Bellamann. --- Henry Cowell. --- Horatio Parker. --- Hymn tune. --- Igor Stravinsky. --- Illustration. --- Improvisation. --- Insurance. --- Johann Sebastian Bach. --- Johannes Brahms. --- John Cage. --- La mer (Debussy). --- Leon Botstein. --- Leonard Bernstein. --- Lou Harrison. --- Ludwig van Beethoven. --- Maynard Solomon. --- Metre (music). --- Modernism (music). --- Modulation (music). --- Music Is. --- Music history. --- Music theory. --- Musical "ation. --- Musical composition. --- Musical expression. --- Musician. --- New York Philharmonic. --- Newspaper. --- Nicolas Slonimsky. --- Olin Downes. --- Orchestra. --- Organist. --- Paul Hindemith. --- Philosopher. --- Phrase (music). --- Piano Music (Louie). --- Piano. --- Polyrhythm. --- Polytonality. --- Popular music. --- Prose. --- Rhythm. --- Richard Strauss. --- Schumann. --- Singing. --- Sonata in B minor (Liszt). --- Songwriter. --- Stuart. --- Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven). --- Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven). --- The Musical Quarterly. --- The New York Times. --- The Orchestra. --- Three Places in New England. --- Time signature. --- Tonality. --- Tone cluster. --- Transcendentalism. --- Universe Symphony (Ives). --- Vachel Lindsay. --- Virgil Thomson. --- Writing. --- Yaddo. --- Yale University. --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Muziekgeschiedenis --- Biografieën --- Brieven --- Essays --- Iconografie --- Muziekkritiek --- Recensies --- Stijlstudies --- Amerika --- Noord-Amerika --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- 20e eeuw --- Beiträge --- Einzelbeiträge --- Sammelwerk --- Aĭvz, Ch., --- Aĭvz, Charlʹz, --- Ives, Charles E. --- Ives, Charles Edward, --- Ives, Ch. E. --- Ajvz, Čarlz --- Komponist --- Danbury, Conn. --- New York, NY --- Ives, Harmony T. --- Ives, George E. --- 1874-1954 --- 20.10.1874-19.05.1954