In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> owainsutton.co.uk writes: >And Schoenberg *didn't* transform the Wagnerian influence out of >recognition?
If you follow his development you can see the transformation. If you start with a serial work, it is easy to miss the connection. Whether he was _stylistically_ influenced by Wagner is totally irrelevant to my argument, which is that he thought it was necessary to invent a new harmonic system because Wagner had "used up" the old one, whereas other composers showed that there were lots of new possibilities in music that required somewhat less radical departures from traditional harmony. S. wanted a music to maintain German cultural supremacy, and I suspect he would have been unenthusiastic about these other ways forward. -- Ken Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.mooremusic.org.uk/ I reject emails > 100k automatically: warn me beforehand if you want to send one _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
