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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Arnold Schoenberg - Style and Idea (1950)

A collection of essays (and, admittedly, rants) on various topics, frequently focusing on explaining the goals and concepts behind his approaches rather than technical details of composition. Fear not, his defense of Brahms as a progressive and so on and so forth contain the usual figures and analysis that dominate this blog.

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