Connections between musical complexes can plausibly compel without any preordained order or repeating theme.

Evidence

The impulses and relations occurring in music of this sort do not presuppose any preordained or overriding order, not even a principle such as the thematic principle, but instead produce connectedness from within themselves. To that extent, they are the descendants of themes, although themes are only treated in a rudimentary way in them, if at all, and are never repeated at intervals. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 544

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Adorno’s notion of a music whose coherence arises from within its material rather than from an imposed thematic principle.
• DEEPTHINKING: A dense formal-aesthetic principle — coherence without a governing order — that also reads as a political claim about solidarity without domination.
• XREF: connects to: Atonal music creates coherence from within without presupposing any preordained order. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2211; Modern music cannot be forced into inherited formal categories like theme and development. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 544
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Atonal music creates coherence from within without presupposing any preordained order. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2211; Modern music cannot be forced into inherited formal categories like theme and development. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 544