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- From: brad@buck.viewlogic.com (Bradford Kellogg)
- Subject: Re: Berg
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.215902.11026@viewlogic.com>
- Originator: brad@buck
- Sender: brad@buck (Bradford Kellogg)
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- Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec22.081306.28194@cs.unibo.it> <1992Dec22.173348.9371@viewlogic.com> <1992Dec22.190135.17394@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:59:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.190135.17394@Princeton.EDU>, mikulska@comet.Princeton.EDU (Margaret Mikulska) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec22.173348.9371@viewlogic.com> brad@buck.viewlogic.com (Bradford Kellogg) writes:
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- |> >Of course, the music is not exactly melodic in the old fashioned sense,
- |> >with Berg following the 12 tone model.
- |>
- |> Not in WOZZECK. There is no "12 tone model" in this opera - it's a
- |> freely atonal work. (LULU is dodecaphonic, though.)
- |>
- I didn't really mean "12 tone" in the sense of the term that you evidently
- thought I meant. To me, "12 tone" means "no key", ergo "atonal". I thought
- there was some special term, something other than "12 tone" or "dodecaphonic"
- to describe the technique whereby no pitch may be repeated until all 12 have
- been used. Perhaps I am imagining this.
-
- You're entirely correct that the "no pitch repeat" rule does not apply to
- Wozzeck; pitches are repeated frequently, to great effect, throughout the
- opera.
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- - BK
-