Wasn’t dissonance emancipated ?
That should mean freedom from boundaries, no hierarchy : simply equality. Instead it rapidly came to mean something quite unlike that : an enforced equality. Arnold Schoenberg fought that fight but it’s not settled yet. I doubt if I can settle it either, but I want to make some suggestions.
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Published in July 9th, 2008
Posted by Ben Johnston in Ben's posts
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