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Schoenberg's Transformation of Musical Language. By Ethan Haimo. (Music in the 20th Century.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [x, 430 p. ISBN-10: 0521865425; ISBN-13: 9780521865425. $90.] Bibliographical references, index, illustrations, music examples.
In Schoenberg's Transformation of Musical Language, author Ethan Haimo posits a "revisionist thesis" regarding the conventionally accepted periodization and related labeling of Schoenberg's musical output. Finding the traditional three-part division (tonal; atonal; twelve-tone) to be inadequate, and the label "atonal" to be so broad as to be meaningless, Haimo proposes three new periods, each with ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Schoenberg's Transformation of Musical Language.(Book review)