Schoenberg and Redemption
by Brown, Julie
fromNew Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
Schoenberg and Redemption presents a new way of understanding Schoenberg's step into atonality in 1908. Reconsidering his threshold and early atonal works, as well as his theoretical writings and a range of previously unexplored archival documents, Julie Brown argues that Schoen…
This thesis consists of a critical portion which traces the relationship of music and poetry throughout history, analyzes the songs of 1960s musicians under the lenses of poetry movements (Jim Morrison as meditative poetry, Leonard Cohen as confessional poetry, and Townes Van Za…
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949) was a Spanish-born polymath who, though mostly remembered for his historically inspired fashion designs, was first trained as a painter in Paris and would become a lighting and set designer, photographer, costume designer, and inventor. Work…
This dissertation aims to show how the relationship between reification and music discloses problems in modern philosophy and critical musicology. In chapter one, I attempt to articulate the relationship between reification and music in order to put forward a vision for a non-re…
