> After Schoenberg freed music from the shackles of tonality (macrostructure), Stockhausen considered
> it his own task to free music from the shackles of acoustic texture (microstructure).
>
> Neither of them understood that music's biggest shackle would be rationalism, wich was broken
> by John Cage (psychostructure).
>
> All of the above of course in the context of Western music. In non-Western musical
> cultures such shackles are just considered to be a complete waste of time.
>
> (exit lecture mode 8^ )
wasn't it Martin Denny himself who said, he always needed noisy sounds to break the harmonic structures of his music? I mean, basically most of what we are talking about in this list is of course good ol' well-tempered western music with some occasional blue note.
