VLVL(7) Bass notes

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Doug Millison wrote:
(quoting GR)

>  Where was there to go after Webern? It was the moment
> of maximum freedom. It all had to come down. Another Gotterdammerung--"(GR
> 440)

Snipped a bit of  Britannica Online confirming  freedom can lead to
tyranny:


 After World War II the two leading artistic attitudes tended to
merge when the followers of Anton von Webern carried serial composition
to such a rigorous extreme that its craftsmanship and intellectual
orientation suggested Classicism rather than Expressionism. Shortly
afterward, Stravinsky, the doyen of the Neoclassical group, began
experimenting with serialism. Avant-garde music since that time has begun
to employ the techniques made possible by technological developments in
electronics.

Unseriously,

		P.