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Twelve‐Note Music as Music: an Essay in Two Parts
Author(s) -
Earle Ben
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
music analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-2249
pISSN - 0262-5245
DOI - 10.1111/musa.12042
Subject(s) - repertoire , art , music history , position (finance) , literature , musicology , philosophy of music , music , popular music , visual arts , art history , music education , finance , economics
Analysts of twelve‐note music tend to treat this repertoire as if it were composed of numbers rather than notes. The first part of this article asks how they might treat this music as if it were music. A theoretical position is developed via close readings of the work a number of theorists and philosophers, notably R oger S cruton and T heodor W . A dorno. In P art II , the potential of the position developed in P art I is tested in a review of three books on twelve‐note music by Nikos Skalkottas and L uigi D allapiccola.