Composers on Mathematical Music
Subtext 1423662


If the ideas set forth in the theory of relativity, in that of wave mechanics, and in the quantum theory are to be accepted as characteristic of the intellectual attitude of our time, it should be interesting to study analogous expressions in atonality. The first and most striking example is found in the concept of twelve-tone music, which shows interesting relations to the thoughts active in modern physical science. This does not mean that twelve-tone music has assimilated physics, or has turned into a new kind of mathematical operation. The example merely connotes similarities in habits of feeling, viewing, and thinking.

Ernst Krenek



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