Schoenberg and the Radical Economies of Harmonielehre
This article examines Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre as a text shaped by the influence of Central European science and politics. In accord with a severely economical approach to his subject, Schoenberg’s critique of figured bass and chorale harmonization is compared with Ernst Mach’s writings on scienti...
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| description | This article examines Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre as a text shaped by the influence of Central European science and politics. In accord with a severely economical approach to his subject, Schoenberg’s critique of figured bass and chorale harmonization is compared with Ernst Mach’s writings on scientific method. In support of this comparison, the article addresses the role played in Schoenberg’s political development by the Leftist editor and organizer, David J. Bach, one of Schoenberg’s closest childhood friends and a student of Mach. The comparison between Schoenberg and Mach, then, is drawn not only in terms of scientific method but also in light of the radical politics of the Austrian Left at the time, a politics for which both Mach and Schoenberg held sympathies. It should not be overlooked that later, however, they ceased to acknowledge these sympathies explicitly, and Schoenberg would appear to have abandoned them entirely. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-22b15ef0aa4046afb49b51d20b35419d2022-12-21T19:26:33ZengLinköping University Electronic PressCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research2000-15252009-06-011105135Schoenberg and the Radical Economies of HarmonielehreMurray DineenThis article examines Schoenberg’s Harmonielehre as a text shaped by the influence of Central European science and politics. In accord with a severely economical approach to his subject, Schoenberg’s critique of figured bass and chorale harmonization is compared with Ernst Mach’s writings on scientific method. In support of this comparison, the article addresses the role played in Schoenberg’s political development by the Leftist editor and organizer, David J. Bach, one of Schoenberg’s closest childhood friends and a student of Mach. The comparison between Schoenberg and Mach, then, is drawn not only in terms of scientific method but also in light of the radical politics of the Austrian Left at the time, a politics for which both Mach and Schoenberg held sympathies. It should not be overlooked that later, however, they ceased to acknowledge these sympathies explicitly, and Schoenberg would appear to have abandoned them entirely.http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.0918105MusicologyHarmonielehreArnold SchoenbergErnst Mach |
| spellingShingle | Murray Dineen Schoenberg and the Radical Economies of Harmonielehre Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research Musicology Harmonielehre Arnold Schoenberg Ernst Mach |
| title | Schoenberg and the Radical Economies of Harmonielehre |
| title_full | Schoenberg and the Radical Economies of Harmonielehre |
| title_fullStr | Schoenberg and the Radical Economies of Harmonielehre |
| title_full_unstemmed | Schoenberg and the Radical Economies of Harmonielehre |
| title_short | Schoenberg and the Radical Economies of Harmonielehre |
| title_sort | schoenberg and the radical economies of harmonielehre |
| topic | Musicology Harmonielehre Arnold Schoenberg Ernst Mach |
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