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Tom listens to Schoenberg’s distillation and defence of his theory of composition with 12 tones: serialism in a nutshell.
'The method of composing with twelve tones substitutes for the order granted by the permanent reference to tonal centers an order according to which every unit of a piece being a derivative of the tonal relations in a basic set of twelve tones, the "Grundgestalt," is coherent because of this permanent reference to it. Shall I repeat this?
Archive audio and photos with kind permission of Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien
By BBC Radio 34.1
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Tom listens to Schoenberg’s distillation and defence of his theory of composition with 12 tones: serialism in a nutshell.
'The method of composing with twelve tones substitutes for the order granted by the permanent reference to tonal centers an order according to which every unit of a piece being a derivative of the tonal relations in a basic set of twelve tones, the "Grundgestalt," is coherent because of this permanent reference to it. Shall I repeat this?
Archive audio and photos with kind permission of Arnold Schönberg Center, Wien

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