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GG's book about Schoenberg cited....
GG's monograph about Schoenberg (_Arnold Schoenberg--A Perspective_, 1964,
republished in full in _The Glenn Gould Reader_) gets four citations in
the following book:
Thomson, William. _Schoenberg's Error_. Philadelphia: Univ of
Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812230884
>From the dust jacket intro: "(...) In _Schoenberg's Error_, William
Thomson examines the composer's explanations of musical structure and
finds them driven by self-serving interpretations of nineteenth-century
ideas, from Nietzsche's notion of the artist's cosmic supremacy to
Darwin's explanation of biological evolution. This examination further
reveals that Schoenberg's perspective was rooted in a severely limited
musical repertory (essentially Germanic, Bach through Brahms), virtual
ignorance of crucial theoretical abstractions (such as modal theories),
and an over-optimistic conception of the integrative powers of human
perception. (...)"
Thomson doesn't go on to trace this into the creative and re-creative work
of Schoenberg's huge fan--Glenn Gould--nor does Kevin Bazzana (whose book
elaborates the idea that Gould's perception of Bach was colored by
Schoenberg's theories). But it could be done....
Anyway, now I'm eager to read Thomson's book after checking the index
and bibliography first for the Gould references!
Bradley Lehman, Dayton VA
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