German Modernism Music and the Arts

In a brilliant and original synthesis of developments in music, art, and literature, "German Modernism offers an important new reading of the years of transition between Romanticism and Modernism. Frisch's study is essential reading for anyone interested in why and how twentieth-century music developed as it did.--Joseph Auner, editor of "A Schoenberg Reader""German Modernism is impressive for the author's wide-ranging historical treatment, which encompasses political, social, and cultural history with sovereign skill. With distinction, Walter Frisch reveals central aspects of the era between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to which music historiography has increasingly ascribed a special profile as 'modern.' No less notable are the focused musical analyses that illuminate works from many different genres. In contrast to cultural history that remains ignorant of music, and musical analysis that pays no attention to social and historical context, this blend of interdisciplinary comprehensiveness and detailed musical analysis makes an exemplary impression."--Hermann Danuser, Professor of Music, Humboldt University, BerlinFrisch, Walter is the author of 'German Modernism Music and the Arts', published 2007 under ISBN 9780520251489 and ISBN 0520251482.