John Howell wrote:
Which is exactly how Hindemith treats it at the beginning of "The
Craft of Musical Composition," giving the theoretical basis for
Neo-Classicism much as Rameau had given the theoretical basis for
major/minor tonality in 1722.
John
And of course, Hindemith's theory is totally irrelevant for Stravinsky,
for whom classical arsis/thesis structures can be replaced by
practically any insistant construction.
Daniel Wolf
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