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The modern era in Western music began in 1911 with the publication of Arnold Schoenberg's Theory of Harmony, which declared that "tonality is no natural law of music, eternally valid."


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Neil M. Ribe, here making his first appearance in COMMENTARY, is assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Yale.

 

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