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Article: The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg 1908-1923. (Composers).
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The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg 1908-1923. By Bryan R. Simms. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [ix, 265 p. ISBN 0-19512826-5. $49.95.]
The music that Schoenberg wrote between his break with tonality and his unveiling of the twelve-tone method has fascinated and perplexed musicians, scholars, and audiences down to the present day. Joining the substantial literature on individual works and several previous books that have examined parts of the repertory from various perspectives, Simms's monograph is the first in English to survey the entire period. It thus fills a gap in scholarship between Walter Frisch's The Early Works of Arnold ...