Jack Boss takes a unique approach to analyzing Arnold Schoenberg\'s Twelve-Tone music, adapting the composer\'s notion of a \'musical idea\' - problem, elaboration, solution - as a framework and focusing on the large-scale coherence of the whole piece.
The book begins by defining \'musical idea\' as a large, overarching process involving conflict between musical elements or situations, elaboration of that conflict, and resolution, and examines how such conflicts often involve symmetrical pitch and.
Jack Boss takes a unique approach to analyzing Arnold Schoenberg\'s Twelve-Tone music, adapting the composer\'s notion of a \'musical idea\' - problem, elaboration, solution - as a framework and focusing on the large-scale coherence of the whole piece
