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Tyranny of Style
Arnold Schoenberg
Eris · Paperback · November 18, 2025
Reading lane: 20th-Century Literary Criticism
"If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art." In this sharp, uncompromising address, he defends the composer’s duty to the text: not to entertain, not to soothe, but to translate meaning with precision and depth.
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- Authors
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Publisher
- Eris
- Published
- November 18, 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- 20th-Century Literary Criticism · Politics in Literature
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century Literary Criticism
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Film & Video Art
Italian Literary Criticism
Music History
About This Book
"If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art." In this sharp, uncompromising address, he defends the composer’s duty to the text: not to entertain, not to soothe, but to translate meaning with precision and depth. Music, he argues, must obey something higher than taste—something as exacting, and as rare, as truth itself.
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