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Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 |
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There are 23 critical essays on Arnold Schoenberg.
Critical Essays on Arnold Schoenberg

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Critical Essay by Walter and Alexander Goehr
7,497 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following essay, which was originally published in 1957, the Goehrs recount Schoenberg's development of his twelve-tone compositional method.
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Critical Essay by Robert P. Morgan
6,977 words, approx. 23 pages
 In the following essay, originally published in Critical Inquiry in 1984, Morgan associates Schoenberg's development of atonal music with a "crisis in language " that occurred in the early twentieth century.
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Critical Essay by Robin Gail Schulze
6,668 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the following essay, Schulze examines the influence of Schoenberg's musical theory on the works of Virginia Woolf
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Critical Essay by Josef Rufer
6,214 words, approx. 21 pages
 In the following essay, originally published in Perspectives of New Music in 1977, Rufer examines the relevance of Schoenberg's music and theory to contemporary audiences.
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Critical Essay by Michael Strasser
6,195 words, approx. 21 pages
 In the following essay, Strasser contends that A Survivor from Warsaw is the story of Schoenberg 's experiences as a Jew.
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Critical Essay by Carl Dalhaus
5,508 words, approx. 18 pages
 In the following essay, which was originally published in 1978, Dalhaus discusses Schoenberg's essays that reveal the aesthetic sense upon which he based his musical compositions.
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Critical Essay by Daniel C. Melnick
5,328 words, approx. 18 pages
 In the following essay, Melnick explores the wider applications of Schoenberg's atonality and Friedrich Nietzche's theory of music to modern art and literature.
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Critical Essay by George Steiner
4,964 words, approx. 17 pages
 In the following essay, Steiner analyzes the relationship between music and language in Schoenberg 's Moses and Aaron.
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Critical Essay by Robert Craft
4,585 words, approx. 15 pages
 In the following essay Craft evaluates and edition of Style and Idea, then reviews Charles Rosen's Arnold Schoenberg.
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Critical Essay by Peter Stadlen
4,353 words, approx. 15 pages
 In the following essay, Stadlen examines Schoenberg's use of "speech-song, " a compositional technique of using "spoken note with fixed durations and pitches, " in Pierrot Lunaire.
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Critical Essay by Roger Sessions
4,337 words, approx. 15 pages
 In the following essay, Sessions surveys Schoenberg's music influenced by American music and culture.
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Critical Essay by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
3,691 words, approx. 12 pages
 In the following essay, Dawidowicz concludes that Moses and Aaron is "the vehicle through which Schoenberg asserted his Jewishness. "
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Critical Essay by Jean Christensen
3,647 words, approx. 12 pages
 In the following essay, Christensen explains the system of philosophy underlying all of Schoenberg's work.
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Critical Essay by Alan Lessem
3,107 words, approx. 10 pages
 In the following essay, Lessem associates Schoenberg 's creative crisis with the early-twentieth-century Expressionist movement.
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Critical Essay by David Hamilton
2,600 words, approx. 9 pages
 In the following essay, Hamilton concludes that Schoenberg's opera Erwartung, while highly original, owes more to the influence of his contemporaries than to his later, more radical, atonal music
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Critical Essay by Virgil Thomson
2,488 words, approx. 8 pages
 In the following essay, Thomson reviews Arnold Schoenberg Letters, finding notable the book's portrayal of Schoenberg as an artist.
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Critical Essay by Paul Rosenfeld
2,175 words, approx. 7 pages
 In the following essay, originally published in 1936, Rosenfeld discusses Schoenberg's Gurrelieder.
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Critical Essay by Roger Sessions
1,905 words, approx. 6 pages
 In the following essay, originally published in The Score in 1952, Sessions analyzes Schoenberg's twelve-tone compositional method.
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Critical Essay by Paul Rosenfeld
1,457 words, approx. 5 pages
 In the following essay, originally published in 1928, Rosenfeld discusses the connection between Schoenberg and Edgard Varèse.

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