grgr (20): "gustav's german dialectic" (p. 440)

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "the late beethoven, brahms, in a certain sense also wagner, have worked with 
 polyphony to compensate the fact that tonality lost its form-coining power and 
 grew stiff like a formula. schönberg, eventually, is putting forth the 
 principle of polyphony not anymore as something heteronomous to emancipatory 
 harmonics that has to be reconciled with it. He reveals it as the essence of 
 emancipatory harmonics itself. the single chord, in the classic-romantical  
 tradition as the subjective carrier of expression the counterpart of   
 polyphonic objectivity, is recognized in its own polyphony. the means for this 
 is nothing else but the most extreme one of romantic subjectivation: the  
 dissonance".

 (m.o.p.a.t. from adorno's "philosophie der neuen musik" [1949], pp. 60f.)

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