GRGR(28): The Row

Josh Kortbein kortbein at iastate.edu
Mon Jun 5 13:08:00 CDT 2000


Jeremy Osner writes:
>On p. 621, Gustav shrieks, "You'll never move beyond the game, to the
>Row. The Row is enlightenment" -- is "the Row" a reference to atonality?
>What is the reference?

That only makes sense, given the sentences right before that that
you didn't quote.

The reference is to a "tone row." Sources abound on the net.


Josh

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