VI. The Sustained Note; the Rest; Discords
GA 278/1924-02-25/p008
·1924-02-25
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It must be admitted that a lot of modern music-making [1924] tends to lay special stress upon that which is stimulated from outside. Attempts are made to imitate what is external—not by means of the pure melodic element, but rather by employing some subject matter as far remote from the melodic element as possible.
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