Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]> replies to me and Deryk Barker:

>Scheonberg didn't believe in atonal music either.  Siad it was a
>contradiction in terms.

That why he used other systems in (some of) his atonal compositions?

For example; I know an early short atonal work whichs opus number I can't
recall at the moment; Schoenberg uses system on other levels; first a
twelwetoneserie is presented, follows its inversion, follows its
retrogradation, follows its retrograd inversion...  etc.

Mats Norrman
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