wonderful Schoenberg (was: Stearns improvs)

> From: Christopher Bailey <cb202@...>
> To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 7:41 PM
> Subject: [metatuning] Stearns improvs
>
>
> I think that's the best way to see them, really. . . .I remember when I
> first found Forte's book "the Structure of Atonal Music" , I eagerly
> paged through it, thinking that all of the wonderful free atonal stuff by
> the 2nd Viennese school (schnbrg, Berg, Webern) would be "explained."
> ...
> I will say, that set theory is useful and fun as a composing tool, but as
> an analysis tool for this wonderful music, uh-uh. How it made it into the
> halls of academia I don't know.

Sure makes me feel good to know that *someone* else out there
in alternative-tuning-cyberspace loves this 12-tone stuff <gasp!>
as much as I do!

(And apologies to Dan ... I still haven't gotten around to
listening to your stuff...)

-monz

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