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Music Composition
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Whether one calls oneself conservative or revolutionary, whether one composes in a conventional or progressive manner, whether one tries to imitate old styles or is destined to express new ideas -- whether one is a good composer or not -- one must be convinced of the infallibility of one's own fantasy and one must believe in one's own inspiration. ("Composition with Twelve Tones")
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― Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg
― Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg
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Once music is
detached from function, once it becomes a repertory art, it
explicitly strives to define itself, out of itself, to become "mathemat-
ical"—that is to say,
to begin from premises and proceed to
conclusions by interpreting its own universe, finding
its own
laws. Systems of harmony and counterpoint become tools for
elaborate musical explorations. A great deal of Western music
is as much a manifestation of idealism as is mathematics.
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― Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
― Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
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