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The Arnold Schoenberg Companion
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Preface Context Changing Views of Schoenberg by Walter B. Bailey Biography by Walter B. Bailey Music List of Works by Walter B. Bailey and Jerry McBride Schoenberg's Tonal Beginnings by Walter B. Bailey The Atonal Period in Schoenberg's Music by Leonard Stein The Evolution of the Twelve-tone Method by Ethan Haimo The Mature Twelve-tone Method by Ethan Haimo The Late Twelve-tone Compositions by Ethan Haimo Schoenberg's Late Tonal Works by Jan Maegaard Legacy Schoenberg's Theory of Composition by Patricia Carpenter Schoenberg: The Analyst and the Analyzed by Bryan R. Simms Schoenberg as Teacher by Leonard Stein Schoenberg's Influence by Gunther Schuller Selective Bibliography by Jerry McBride Selective Discography by Jerry McBride Index

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A sophisticated introduction to and review of Arnold Schoenberg's life, ideas, and music.

About the Author

WALTER B. BAILEY is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He has written numerous articles for music journals and magazines, and his previous books include Radie Britain: A Bio-Bibliography, written with Nancy Bisbrecht Bailey (Greenwood, 1990), and Programmatic Elements in the Works of Schoenberg (1984).

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?Everything about this book meets its stated aim of helping the novice to understand Schoenberg's own aims and accomplishments.?-ARBA

?In this anthology, Bailey offers a balanced and comprehensive view of Schoenberg's work and influence, providing "nontechnical," informative, even engaging articles that are sure to interest the general reader as wellas the musician. No other single book in the literature covers so many facets of Schoenberg's career....Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through professionals.?-Choice

?In those words of its editor, Walter B. Bailey, "this volume seeks to address...the key features of Schoenberg, his creative process, his music, and its influence...without extensive technical terminology...."The work admirably succeeds in its purpose.?-Journal of the Conductors Guild

"Everything about this book meets its stated aim of helping the novice to understand Schoenberg's own aims and accomplishments."-ARBA

"In those words of its editor, Walter B. Bailey, "this volume seeks to address...the key features of Schoenberg, his creative process, his music, and its influence...without extensive technical terminology...."The work admirably succeeds in its purpose."-Journal of the Conductors Guild

"In this anthology, Bailey offers a balanced and comprehensive view of Schoenberg's work and influence, providing "nontechnical," informative, even engaging articles that are sure to interest the general reader as wellas the musician. No other single book in the literature covers so many facets of Schoenberg's career....Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through professionals."-Choice

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