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Schonbergs Zeichen: Wege zur Interpretation seiner Klaviermusik.

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Schonbergs Zeichen: Wege zur Interpretation seiner Klaviermusik. By Jean-Jacques Dunki. (Publikationen der Internationalen Schonberg-Gesellschaft, Band 6.) Vienna: Verlag Lafite, 2006. [152 p. ISBN 3-85151-074-7. [euro]34.] Music examples, facsimiles, tables, appendix, bibliography, compact disc.

Despite the burgeoning literature on Arnold Schoenberg, the performance of his music has received comparatively little scholarly attention. The principal contribution in this area, a compendium of essays (Die Lehre von der musikalischen Auffuhrung in der Wiener Schule: Verhandlungen des Internationalen Colloquiums Wien 1995, ed. Markus Grassl and Reinhard Kapp [Vienna: Bohlau, 2002]), has recently been supplemented with articles by Roland Jackson ("Schoenberg as Performer of his own Music," Journal of Musicological Research 24, no. 1 [January-March 2005]: 49-69) and Avior Byron ("The Test Pressings of Schoenberg Conducting Pierrot lunaire: Sprechstimme Reconsidered," Music Theory Online 12, no. 1 [February 2006]; http://mto.societymusictheory.org/issues/mto.06.12.1.byron.html, accessed 21 February 2007). Jean-Jacques Dunki's study of Schoenberg's piano music, the latest in the newly revived series entitled "Publikationen der Internationalen Schonberg-Gesellschaft" (now edited by Matthias Schmidt), is the first published monograph devoted exclusively to the topic of Schoenberg performance practice. His scholarly work notwithstanding (Der Grad der Bewegung: Tempovorstellungen und -konzepte in Komposition und Interpretation 1900-1950, ed. Jean-Jacques Dunki, Anton Haefeli and Regula Rapp [Bern: Peter Lang, 1998]), it is made clear from the outset, both in Rudolf Stephan's preface and in Dunki's own introduction, that his approach is that of a...

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