![Any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the twelve-tone system) is a brand of fetishism which shares with fascism and racism the tendency to reduce live processes to immobile, labeled objects, the tendency to deal with formalities rather than substance.
[Luciano Berio, Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music]](http://21.media.tumblr.com/8VB6Iq9jqax560ikrbewPJ6F_500.jpg)
Any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the twelve-tone system) is a brand of fetishism which shares with fascism and racism the tendency to reduce live processes to immobile, labeled objects, the tendency to deal with formalities rather than substance.
[Luciano Berio, Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music]
