Steve Schwart writes:

>To me, the most important things about
>Schoenberg are that he allowed linear counterpoint to become much more
>independent and that he expanded ideas on how highly chromatic and quickly
>modulating music coheres.

That's so nicely stated that I almost bought it. I'd still buy it if it
were recast thus:"...on how highly chromatic and quickly modulating music
can be cogently composed without sounding like music."

Denis Fodor                     Internet:[log in to unmask]