Schoenberg

‘Night Music' – Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung

Arnold Whittall (Emeritus, King's College London)

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English

Cambridge University Press
30 November 2023

20th century & contemporary classical music

Series: New Cambridge Music Handbooks

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) is often portrayed as a composer who began as a heart-on-sleeve late Romantic only to evolve during the First World War into an austere, mathematically-obsessed deviser of musical puzzles. Yet to claim that in his music he replaced tonality with its absolute opposite, atonality, as the twelve-tone method swept away all trace of traditional harmonic and thematic processes, is as misleading as to argue that romantic warmth and humanity morphed into the purest and most austerely modernistic spirituality. This handbook refocuses the wealth of recent research into two of Schoenberg's major compositions; the expressive character of those relatively early works which centre on nocturnal images of darkness and despair is at its most original and powerful in Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung, where the dramatic interplay between stabilising continuities and disorientating fragmentations reveals the elements of a modernist aesthetics that remained fundamental to Schoenberg's musical thought.

By: Arnold Whittall (Emeritus King's College London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009077361
ISBN 10: 1009077368
Series: New Cambridge Music Handbooks
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Prelude; 2. Verklärte nacht; 3. Before erwartung; 4. Erwartung; 5. After erwartung.

Arnold Whittall is Professor Emeritus of Musical Theory & Analysis at King's College London. His most recent books are The Wagner Style (2015) and British Music after Britten (2020) and he is co-translator of Pierre Boulez's Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures (2018).