ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with telling phrases as Arnold Schoenberg advocated tone-colour melody as the future direction of the art of music. The initial form the New Music took was defined by the Expressionist style Arnold Schoenberg developed between 1908 and 1915. The idea of beauty, however, once had had a definition, which when applied to music was capable of giving answers justifying the practices of tonal melodic and harmonic writing. The doctrine of self-expression has become so deeply ingrained in the artistic and musical ideology of the twentieth century that it is difficult to question it, or to imagine that there might be alternative aesthetic theories. The music for the opera carried the dissolution of melody inherent in atonality to its furthest limits: Schoenberg avoided all motivic repetition as much as possible. Schoenberg concluded the chapter with telling phrases as he advocated tone-colour melody as the future direction of the art of music.
