Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg

Charlotte M. Cross, Russell A. Berman

"The seriousness and steadfastness of his "mission"--to be a beacon for music in contemporary culture--and the ambivalence of his position as a thoroughly Europeanized Jew resonante in these informative, thoroughly documented articles, written primarily by younger scholars." -- Choice

• Introduction * Abstract Polyphonies: The Music of Schoenberg's Nietzschean Moment, William Benjamin * Arnold Schoenberg as Poet and Librettist: Dualism, Epiphany, and Die Jakobsleiter, David Schroeder * Androgyny and the Eternal Feminine in Schoenberg's Oratorio Die Jakobsleiter, Jennifer Shaw * Von heute auf morgen : Schoenberg as Social Critic, Stephen Davison * Schoenberg in Shirtsleeves: The Male Choruses, Op. 35, Robert Falck * The Prophet and the Pitchman: Dramatic Structure and Its Musical Elucidation in Moses und Aron, Act I, Scene 2, Edward Latham * Schoenberg's Moses und Aro : A Vanishing Biblical Nation, Bluma Goldstein * Schoenberg Rewrites His Will: A Survivor from Warsaw , Op. 46, David Isadore Lieberman * Texts and Contexts of A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46, Camille Crittenden * Returning to a Homeland: Religion and Political Context in Schoenberg's Dreimal tausend Jahre, Naomi Andr * Schoenberg's Modern Psalm , Op.50c, and the Unattainable Ending, Mark Risinger