Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-300) and index.

Schoenberg's lieder / Walter Frisch -- Schoenberg and the tradition of chamber music for strings / Michael Cherlin -- Two early Schoenberg songs : monotonality, multitonality, and schwebende Tonalität / Robert P. Morgan -- Arnold Schoenberg and Richard Strauss / Craig De Wilde -- Interpreting Erwartung : collaborative process and early reception / Elizabeth L. Keathley -- The rise and fall of radical athematicism / Ethan Haimo -- Schoenberg, modernism, and metaphysics / Julian Johnson -- Pierrot lunaire : persona, voice, and the fabric of allusion / Richard Kurth -- Schoenberg as teacher / Joy H. Calico -- Schoenberg, satire, and the Zeitoper / Peter Tregear -- Schoenberg's row tables : temporality and the idea / Joseph Auner -- Immanence and transcendence in Moses und Aron / Richard Kurth -- Schoenberg, the Viennese-Jewish experience and its aftermath / Steven J. Cahn -- Cadence after thirty-three years : Schoenberg's Second Chamber Symphony, Op. 38 / Severine Neff -- Schoenberg's collaborations / Jennifer Shaw -- Listening to Schoenberg's Piano Concerto / Walter B. Bailey -- Schoenberg reception in America, 1933-51 / Sabine Feisst -- Schoenberg : dead or alive? His reception among the postwar European avant-garde / Richard Toop.

Arnold Schoenberg - composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Challenging commonly held views of the composer as an isolated elitist, the volume examines his engagement with contemporary artistic, social, and political developments. Chapters cover Schoenberg's musical works, theoretical texts, published and unpublished essays, letters, and projects, and consider his influence on other composers and writers over the last century."--BOOK JACKET.