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GG: Music sorta theorist!
I wish I had a nickel for every time GG mentions the tone rows of
Webern! I understand what GG means in relation to _North_, but what,
for example, might be an "instrumental idea" of Webern's? How are
Webern's tone rows different from Schoenberg's?
-Mary Jo
P.S. Anyone gotten the new copy of _GlennGould_ yet?
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I understand the appeal of Webern to be his contrast of instruments as
another element of the tonal system. This is evidenced in Webern's
concerto for Nine Instruments in which the individual instruments only
play a few notes at a time and the theme is varied in the next
instrument. Webern is the only one I know who could match a piano
with a trumpet. On the other hand, Schoenberg varies the theme with
the same instrument. That's my view of it, and I am partial to
neither composer (Forgive me Glenn!)
P.S. What _GlennGould_?
Lori Lalonde