Michael Cherlin is Professor of Music Theory and Associate Director of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota.

"...deserves recognition as one of the most important contributions to the analysis of Schoenberg's music in recent years." --Current Musicology

• Introduction; 1. A passing of worlds: Gurrelieder as Schoenberg's reluctant farewell to the nineteenth century; 2. Dialectical opposition in Schoenberg's music and thought; 3. Dramatic conflict in Pelleas und Melisande; 4. Motive and memory in Schoenberg's First String Quartet; 5. Uncanny expressions of time in the music of Arnold Schoenberg; 6. The tone row as the source of dramatic conflict in Moses und Aron; 7. The String Trio: metaleptic Schoenberg; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.

Michael Cherlin is Professor of Music Theory and Associate Director of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota.

"...deserves recognition as one of the most important contributions to the analysis of Schoenberg's music in recent years." --Current Musicology

• Introduction; 1. A passing of worlds: Gurrelieder as Schoenberg's reluctant farewell to the nineteenth century; 2. Dialectical opposition in Schoenberg's music and thought; 3. Dramatic conflict in Pelleas und Melisande; 4. Motive and memory in Schoenberg's First String Quartet; 5. Uncanny expressions of time in the music of Arnold Schoenberg; 6. The tone row as the source of dramatic conflict in Moses und Aron; 7. The String Trio: metaleptic Schoenberg; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.

Michael Cherlin is Professor of Music Theory and Associate Director of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota.

"...deserves recognition as one of the most important contributions to the analysis of Schoenberg's music in recent years." --Current Musicology

• Introduction; 1. A passing of worlds: Gurrelieder as Schoenberg's reluctant farewell to the nineteenth century; 2. Dialectical opposition in Schoenberg's music and thought; 3. Dramatic conflict in Pelleas und Melisande; 4. Motive and memory in Schoenberg's First String Quartet; 5. Uncanny expressions of time in the music of Arnold Schoenberg; 6. The tone row as the source of dramatic conflict in Moses und Aron; 7. The String Trio: metaleptic Schoenberg; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.