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This dissertation, the first dedicated study of the reception of the music of Anton Webern in the United States, focuses on moments at which U.S. musicians, scholars, and institutions have sought to render Webern’s music accessible to mainstream classical music audiences. The fi…

Arnold Schoenberg’s theory of Klangfarbenmelodie (timbre-melody) is one of the most important yet least understood compositional innovations of the twentieth century. Critical reexaminations of his writings reveal that it is a textural principle, a way to combine the homophonic …