Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an Austrian composer whose discovery of the "method of composition with twelve tones" radically transformed 20th-century music. The early music of Arnold Schoenberg represents the culmination of romantic musical...

Edited by Walter B. Bailey. Stamford, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. [xiv, 335 p. ISBN 0-313-28779-1. $89.50.] Walter Bailey's Arnold Schoenberg Companion is a series of essays considering Schoenberg's music, theoretical thought, teaching philosophies, and historical impact. Each contribution presents a specialized topic...

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Rose Bampton, a soprano who performed 18 seasons at the Metropolitan Opera and established herself as a premier voice in American opera, has died. She was 99.Bampton died Tuesday in the Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Mawr, said Mark Sullivan, parish administrator at St. David's Episcopal...

Rose BamptonWAYNE, Pa. (AP) _ Rose Bampton, a soprano who performed 18 seasons at the Metropolitan Opera and established herself as a premier voice in American opera, has died. She was 99.Bampton died Tuesday in the Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Mawr, said Mark Sullivan, parish...

In the following essay, Lacoue-Labarthe discusses the religious undercurrents in Schoenberg's work.

In the following essay, Smith provides an overview of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method.

In the following essay, which was originally published in 1957, the Goehrs recount Schoenberg's development of his twelve-tone compositional method.