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  1. @ho
    I’ve been reading composer bios and publicity materials for at least 30 years claiming that this or that artist is bravely saving music from the tyranny of atonality. Every single one of them is a lone courageous rebel risking it all to take a stand against the empire of ugliness. And apparently none of them know about each other, or realize that music has been saved the same way a thousand times already.
    @c_reider
    @composers
    #composers
    #atonality

  2. #AlbanBerg #Tonality #Atonality #TwelveToneTechnique #SecondVienneseSchool

    "I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality." ~ Alban Berg

  3. #AlbanBerg #Tonality #Atonality #TwelveToneTechnique #SecondVienneseSchool

    "I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality." ~ Alban Berg

  4. Toward the end of his life, after having resisted #atonality (for want of a better term) for about 50 years, and kept #tonality alive through various "tricks" (#polytonality, #polyrhythm, ironic use of classical forms and citations, #collage... all devices which Bernstein once nicknamed "#tonal refreshers"), Stravinsky, whose personal beliefs were becoming increasingly religious & mystic, finally caved in to #dodecaphonic and #serial techniques, albeit in an idiosyncratically Stravinskian way...

  5. Toward the end of his life, after having resisted #atonality (for want of a better term) for about 50 years, and kept #tonality alive through various "tricks" (#polytonality, #polyrhythm, ironic use of classical forms and citations, #collage... all devices which Bernstein once nicknamed "#tonal refreshers"), Stravinsky, whose personal beliefs were becoming increasingly religious & mystic, finally caved in to #dodecaphonic and #serial techniques, albeit in an idiosyncratically Stravinskian way...

  6. Arnold Schoenberg - Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 (Six Little Piano Pieces) (1913)

    youtube.com/watch?v=1Hp-cFWZnW

    #Music #Atonality #Schoenberg