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| >have you checked out webern's 
string quartet music? i'm not too familiar with 
webern. i know most of these guys only from studying music 
theory in college. i kind of got it backwards, studying it first, then 
listening. i come from the rock and roll side of 
things. this led to some interesting clashes with "jazzers" 
and "classical" types. totally agree. i think that it is easier to 
study it than to hear it, if you know what i 
mean... > i believe that bartok also had a 
tonality system, though i don't know much about it and it seems like too 
much for my little brain love bartok. listen to the string quartets regularly. i think his system is somewhat geometric as 
well. a very bartokian sonority is to 
superimpose major and minor triads with the same tonic in a 
way that results in a vertically (pitch) symetrical shape (ex. E3 G3 C4 Eb4: 
minor third, perfect fourth, minor third).   very cool... he also used hungarian folk melodies as source  material to manipulate in sonically new 
ways. so he was quite the "remixer," too. i'd love to hear what he would have 
done with modern electronics. i have a friend who has looped 
bartok... (there, i snuck looping 
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