Elliott Carter (1977). The Writings of Elliott Carter, p.186. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Cited in Albright, Daniel (2004). Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources. University of Chicago Press. .
• Cited in Albright, Daniel (2004). Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources. University of Chicago Press. .
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The pre-World War I works of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, "give a glimpse of a new universe of emancipated discourse, unfortunately quickly abandoned when Schoenberg returned to the classical musical shapes upon adopting the twelve-tone system."
— Elliott Carter
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