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# Arnold Schoenberg

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## Customer Reviews

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    Five Stars
  

*by M***O on Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016*

Great Book!

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    Puzzle Canon
  

*by G***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2010*

Rosen offers a brief and invaluable presentation of formal and critical factors for appraising dodecaphonic music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern through an analysis of representative major works from Schoenberg!s oeuvre. His primary argument is that the "emancipation of dissonance" brought to flower by the Second Viennese School consists not in the ubiquitous deployment of discordant harmonic and melodic intervals, but in a deeper move to abandon cadence as the dominant organizational principle in music. The intervals themselves are no more dissonant than those commonly found in Debussy or Mahler, but no attempt is made to resolve them by returning to the fundamental triad of the work.By turning from cadence to serialism, Rosen argues, Schoenberg follows the path laid out by Brahms and Wagner in organizing musical ideas by motives and melodic development rather than by key. In this sense, and especially in the techniques the serialists exploit to vary the row, they resemble the polyphonists of the Ars Nova and Renaissance more than the homophonic classicists or Romantics who preceded them.This is a forceful and useful argument that Rosen presents clearly and thoughtfully, and this book may be of great service to those who hear anarchy or anomie in the so-called atonal movement.However, after careful consideration I think he considerably overstates the function of cadence in determining the psychoacoustic experience of dissonance. I think the naive listener could very well listen to musical development that stretches or breaks tonic resolution, such as the progressive tonality found in Mahler's fifth symphony, without any particular experience of tension or dissonance.

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    Great one evening overview of Schoenberg
  

*by K***U on Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2009*

This book is short enough, and briskly paced enough, to be read in one evening.  Mr. Rosen is a very erudite musician; I've found all his writings interesting.  Here, he provides a basic overview of Schoenberg's musical accomplishments, primarily for nonmusician readers.  Because Schoenberg's music is so closely bound to its musical predecessors, the book also gives a very good succinct overview of the development of tonal usage from Beethoven through Wagner.  One comes away realizing how, in many ways, Schoenberg was a deeply traditional composer, extremely conservative in much of his outlook while breaking fascinating new ground in the area of pitch relationships.Although intended for a general audience, Mr. Rosen assumes the ability to read music and a basic level of musical literacy -- what a chromatic scale is, what a tonic-dominant relationship is, etc.  For readers lacking even the rudiments of technical musical knowledge, I suspect the book would be hard going.

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