VLVL(7) Bass notes
Paul Mackin
pmackin at clark.net
Sun Jan 10 10:19:01 CST 1999
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.
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