ABSTRACT
In 1949, Schoenberg wrote in his article 'My Evolution': In the last few years I have been questioned as to whether certain of my compositions are 'pure' twelve-tone, or twelve-tone at all. The fact is that I do not know. I am still more a composer than a theorist. Schoenberg's aspiration for a new systematic presentation of music theory may be seen from two perspectives. First, according to a systematization of tonality in which different constituting elements, if combined, are able to express tonality, tonality is therefore produced by a specific syntax which can be divided into different levels, and is ultimately achieved through monotonality. Secondly, according to a systematic approach to thematic development, Schoenberg saw the musical structure as dependent not on tonality, but on motivic logic. Schoenberg saw the refutation of scientific method for music analysis as necessary because each musical composition possesses its own identity and its own qualities.
