September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Expressionism is “a style striving to penetrate to the very essence of a subject by expressing it in abstract terms, as in atonality.”1 Composers now felt freer to impose their own personal terms upon creation. Romanticism began it, but the arts now made the creative personality of the individual artist of paramount value.1
The formerly arch-Romantic Viennese composer Arnold Schoenberg formulated a composing method that guaranteed atonality in any musical work. It amounts to “total chromaticism, totally fragmented.” All 12 pitches of the scale ...
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