Bach the progressive
With his twelve-tone technique, Schoenberg decisively brought composition into the discourse of history. His modernist concept of stylistic and technical purity of the serial composition hinges at a first glance on a teleological conception of history. Nevertheless, several ontological and historical details of the serial idea lead to the conclusion that twelve-tone music was a dialectical concept that brings forward the argument of a transcendental progressiveness.
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