Relationships between Analytical and Compositional Work

A still deep-rooted opinion claims that writing (serious) music simply coincides with the logic of the treatment of aseptic sound materials. The more our musical thinking is logically plausible, explicable and coherent, the more our music will be endowed with recognizable value. So, particularly during the second part of the twentieth century, quite a few speciously scientific ways of composing music stressed the processes of manipulation to ...