ABSTRACT
The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, music theorists, and scholars of German literature and of Jewish studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 6|28 pages
The Prophet and the Pitchman
Dramatic Structure and Its Musical Elucidation in Moses und Aron, Act 1, Scene 2
chapter 10|30 pages
Returning to a Homeland
Religion and Political Context in Schoenberg's Dreimal tausend Jahre
