20th Century Music Essay.

Modernism: Mahler, Strauss, Schoenberg

New ideas in the 20th Centry.
This is the whole flaw of Emotianal Music. It is like a durg: you must have more
drug, and more noise each time, or this effect, this impression which works from
the outside, in from the nerves and sensorium upon the shelf is no use, its
effect is constantly weaker and weaker
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Ezra Pound

American poet living in London 1914.

The earliest modernist period, was a time of enormously accelerated stylistic
innovation, accompanied by an enormous expansion of technical resources.