Abstract

Anton Webern’s compositions are customarily analyzed according to the rigors of the twelve-tone system. This essay follows a different path and attemps to show how an abstract form of tonal thinking, represented by the utilization of the Neapolitan sixth chord, determines Webern’s compositional design in Op. 10, No. 4.

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