The Book of the Hanging Gardens and Other Songs for Voice and Piano

by Arnold Schoenberg

Even in his earliest songs, Schoenberg had begun explorations of chromaticism that would lead him away from traditional harmony and, eventually, from tonality itself. Audiences and critics did not take to these new sounds without protest. As Schoenberg himself put it, "the scandal never stopped." But despite listeners' resistance, the composer persisted on a course that in time deeply influenced the musical language of the twentieth century. Today,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486285626
• ISBN13: 9780486285627
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 12.2"