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I don't have a copy at home, but I believe that Mark Richard's talks about the idea of a thrice-repeated basic idea (among other things) in “Viennese Classicism and the Sentential Idea: Broadening the Sentence Paradigm.” Theory and Practice 36 (2011…
I don't think the word "atonal" had any musical currency before the 1910s. Most early references are from the 20s. Schoenberg's famous rebuke of the term "atonality" as it applied to his music occured in the 1930s.
You do, however, find reference t…
It's a great idea. I've always heard that doin. This kind of thing can be really frustrating because of "revert wars" amongst specialists and non-specialists. How would we deal with that?