Arnold Schoenberg: Notes, Sets, Forms

In this thought-provoking study, Silvina Milstein proposes a reconstruction of Schoenberg's conception of compositional process in his twelve-tone works. Challenging the commonly held view that this music is to be appropriately understood exclusively in terms of the new method, she claims that in Schoenberg we encounter tonal relations operating in a twelve-tone context. The core of the book consists of detailed analytical studies, yet its heavy reliance on factors outside the score (such as the sketch material, the composer's theoretical and philosophical writings, his musical development, and cultural milieu) places this work beyond the boundaries of textual analysis into the field of the history of musical ideas.Milstein, Silvina is the author of 'Arnold Schoenberg: Notes, Sets, Forms' with ISBN 9780521390491 and ISBN 0521390494.