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The Contemporary Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Extract

Roger Smalley says that in Webern as opposed to Schoenberg, canon dominates the later music, which is “a reason for the spareness of Webern's textures… These characteristics are also true of Stravinsky's serial music, which is why on the deepest level he is a Webernian serialist and (pace Hans Keller) not a Schoenbergian one”.

Type
Review Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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