I’d say that anyone who has listened to Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël has started down the classical Christmas rabbit hole. Now, let’s go a bit further down. A Symphony of Carols by Victor ...

A common process contributes to organizing the interval structures in both tonal music and the atonal music of Arnold Schoenberg, a process he called "developing variation." This article shows how ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Arnold Schoenberg's 1911 précis for a book on counterpoint called Das Komponieren mit selbständige Stimmen presages his interest in and return ...

I always considered Arnold Schoenberg’s 12-tone, atonal music pretentious noise. But I’ve been forced to change my mind after reading Mark Swed’s enlightening analysis (“Driven to Express Himself,” ...

I can imagine readers thinking to themselves what a nonsensical title this post bears – atonal music as a model for democracy? Really? What possible connection could there be? And yet, someone ...

Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn turn to Schoenberg’s early and little known songs in this immaculate recording Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn follow their ...