I always considered Arnold Schoenberg’s 12-tone, atonal music pretentious noise. But I’ve been forced to change my mind after reading Mark Swed’s enlightening analysis (“Driven to Express Himself,” ...

Was the traditional twelve-tone scale, Paris’ newspaper Le Figaro wondered, “exhausted to the point where a new tone scale should take its place?” Or was it still possible “to discover new expressions ...

Sandy Goehr in 1961: he became one of the most famous writers of serialist music, the development of Schoenberg's 12-tone system - Erich Auerbach Alexander Goehr, who has died aged 92, was the last ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Anton Webern's compositions are customarily analyzed according to the rigors of the twelve-tone system. This essay follows a different path ...