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’ Schoenbergs Atonal Music Award-winningauthorJackBossreturnswiththe“prequel”toSchoenberg’s Twelve-ToneMusic(Cambridge,2014)demonstratingthattheterm“atonal”is meaningfulindescribingSchoenberg’smusicfrom1908to1921.Thisbookshows howSchoenberg’satonalmusiccanbeunderstoodintermsofsuccessionsofpitch andrhythmicmotivesandpitch-classsetsthatfleshoutthelargeframeworksof “musicalidea”and“basicimage.”Italsoexplainshowtonality,afterlosingits structuralroleinSchoenberg’smusicafter1908,beginstoreappearnotlongafter asanoccasionalexpressivedevice.Likeitspredecessor,Schoenberg’sAtonalMusic containsclosereadingsofrepresentativeworks,includingtheOp.11andOp.19 PianoPieces,theOp.15George-Lieder,themonodramaErwartung,andPierrot lunaire.Theseanalysesareillustratedbyrichlydetailedmusicexamples,revealing theunderlyinglogicofsomeofSchoenberg’smostdifficultpiecesofmusic. jack boss isProfessorofMusicTheoryandCompositionattheUniversityof Oregon.Hispreviousbook,Schoenberg’sTwelve-ToneMusic:Symmetryandthe MusicalIdea(Cambridge,2014)receivedtheWallaceBerryAwardfromthe SocietyforMusicTheoryin2015.HisarticlescanbefoundintheJournalofMusic Theory,MusicTheorySpectrum,PerspectivesofNewMusic,MusicTheoryOnline, MusicAnalysis,Intégral,andGamut. 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ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108419130 DOI:10.1017/9781108296991 ©JackBoss2019 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2019 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Boss,JackForrestauthor. Title:Schoenberg’satonalmusic:musicalidea,basicimageandspectersoftonalfunction/ JackBoss. Description:NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom, 2019.|Series:Musicsince1900|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2019008714|ISBN9781108419130(alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:Schoenberg,Arnold,1874–1951–Criticismandinterpretation.|Music– 20thcentury–Historyandcriticism.|Music–20thcentury–Analysis,appreciation.| Atonality. Classification:LCCML410.S283B662019|DDC780.92–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019008714 ISBN978-1-108-41913-0Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. ForSunHwa
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