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Old 03-13-2016, 09:30 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan View Post
Didn't Schoenberg keep a cat in a box, and he didn't even know if it was alive or dead? If he did that today I bet PITA would be after him.
His idea was that if you keep a cat in a soundproofed box, you can't declare that its screech is in a key or follows the 12 tone technique until you open the box and hear it.
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