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]