Webern's Path To New Music - Part 2

As I carry on my journey into webern's book, I am enlightened by 2 points which Webern mentioned.

" In every music there require space, a Gregorian Chant only occupy one line of the space", "when polyphony was discovered, the space of music were expanded, thus enable composers to express themselves better via music." Usually as a amature musician, I do not look parts of the music as "space extension". This concept which Webern mention not only turned my point of view in music and made me understand why the texture of Western Classical Music become more dense as music evolve through the various music period (Orchestra Sound in Baroque period was much lighter compare to Orchestra in late romantic period).

Webern viewed that all music must be comprehensive, in order for comprehensiveness to happen, there must be repetition, repetition can be things like sequences, Period and etc. Schoenberg's 12 notes techique is a very good example of repetition (comprehensiveness) because the 12 notes sequence keep reoccur forming repetition. Repetition not only occurs in New Music, it can be found in music as early as the gregorian chants, Mozart and Beethoven symphony. Looking at this point, I realised that it is true that almost all music have repetitions, even in pop music. Repetition is really a must in music, it is not quite possible to compose a comprehensive piece of music without writing any repetitions.

So in music comprehensiveness and musical space music be put into consideration.

To Be Continue.....