Russell A. Berman & Charlotte M. Cross 
Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg [PDF ebook] 

The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg»s works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, music theorists, and scholars of German literature and of Jewish studies.