tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130206494645301082.post184630936874822852..comments2023-12-16T18:07:23.948-08:00Comments on The Subterranean Review: A historicist splinterThe Subterranean Reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755042510131952633noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130206494645301082.post-73606719552178652432019-05-08T18:29:15.184-07:002019-05-08T18:29:15.184-07:00Leonard Meyer succinctly described the post-Romant...Leonard Meyer succinctly described the post-Romantic fixation on innovation that continued through into 20th century modernism in his later book Style and Music, "Put aphoristically: radical individualism seeks to undermine the norms on which its expression depends." (p 221)<br /><br />He did a good job of describing how, in contrast to some rhetoric used in the time, Romantic era composers worked more to disguise rather than actually reject the conventions they inherited from earlier periods of music and earlier styles. <br />Wenatchee the Hatchethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13208892745502555715noreply@blogger.com