Volume 24, Number 19 · November 24, 1977
Astrology, Hockney, Schubert: A Musical Diary
By Robert Craft
July 21, 1977, Venice. Astrology, whose influence began to decline with Copernicus, lost every vestige of intellectual respectability with Newton, was derided in the nineteenth century as a medieval superstition, is now taught in universities, packaged and sold to the masses, held in the highest esteem by avantgarde artists. Karlheinz Stockhausen's Sirius, for example, employs a musical system correlated to the zodiac, and his statements about this have attracted world attention, partly through his numerous disciples—who seem younger each year, no doubt because they replace disaffected older ones. In an interview (Le Monde, July 21), he explains the 'new panthematicism' that he has evolved, 'resulting from all the parameters of sound,' and compares this to the limited thematic treatment of
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