Arnold Schönberg: Suite op. 25 / Musette

[Siddi1976]

Luckily I didn't expect elevator music.

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

Senseless about tempo here... it is not a rubato, but almost a random approach towards the tempo. The phrasing seems just as random also. I didn't feel any of the tempo changes. Sounds dumb when played like this. Just an example... Measure 16- where are those short notes and the rit. ? Almost no dynamic difference throughout the whole performance. Ending... FP and ppps? I would rather hear a MIDI.

[mikkeljs]

I can hear that this is played by Elisabeth Klein.

[AgentHomer]

I quite like the music, but the performance seems a bit pretentious at times. a bit over the top.

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

@AgentHomer It seems incoherent to me...

[nozen4u]

If it gives me a headache, does that make me uncultured?

[gxtmfa]

@nozen4u that might means it's working. Dissonant music should create tension. It's about letting the music make you feel that anxiety. Great music makes a person feel strong emotions safely. The only other times a person might get to feel that anxiety and headache may be under incredible duress. Maybe you don't want to feel that headache right now. But you might want to challenge your emotions with your ears later, and that's when you listen to this stuff.

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

@nozen4u No, just poor interpretation.

[myxo101]

Easy way to compose atonal music: bash the piano.

[garypledet]

Poor. The articulation is incorrect



[ReturnOfTheStienway]

@garypledet THANK YOU FOR NOTICING!!!!

[Rickeeey1]

One of my favorite Schoenberg pieces. Anyways, I think it takes some time to get used to this kind of music and that's a problem for many. As for me, I listen to basically any classical music, from gregorian chant to Stockhausen.

[Sarmad939]

This is a very poor performance, given by an amateur or student. That's ok, but you should state who is playing it so that people won't think this is a 'proper' public rendition. The notes are there etc. but the interpretation is rather weak.

[toquepiano]

I just love this Musette!! But I didn't understand the pianist, too slow for the music's character.

[Mystilein]

There is a cat jumping on your piano...

[jessegguitar]

@Mystilein virtuoso cat

[polszik]

Believe me ! there's a mistake 0:48 at the Fsharp 8th right hand at the end of the page, he play two notes !!

[liegeofshadows]

@polszik I don't believe that is a mistake because it sounds amazing. :]

[andhemills]

It is not to say that there is not tone here. Tone is an element of Music (as well as Groove, Notes, Articulation/Duration, Technique, Emotion/Feel, Dynamics, Rhythm/Tempo, Phrasing and Rest/Space). Tone is powerful. Notes produced by [your instrument] will have different effects on listeners depending on the tone that's used. If you want people to dance, use a certain tone. If you want them to quiet down and listen another tone is necessary. If you want to heal, use another tone altogether.

[beastraeatsall]

@andhemills When people call this music "atonal", they're talking about tonality or key, not timbre. They're not using "tone" in the same sense you are just used it. This music was written under a specific system in order to sound like it doesn't have a key or tonality.

[Lillars]

Qui joue, s'il vous plaît ?

[BELACSAMOHT]

@Lillars

Ils méritent d'être giflé.

[john3047X]

no thanks lol

[Foobitz]

beautiful



[FiatObscuritas]

@Foobitz yes

[caelumnoct23]

he's a genius

[neme5151]

@eaglesonofwill

Well, yes and no. Schönberg never meant for atonality to repress or even so much as replace tonality. He constructed something simply different and, imho, magnificently succeeded in doing so. One does not have to like it, but he never demanded anybody to do so. And something tells me that the "classics" will not die out because of this - they're simply, you know, too classy.

[Ellebellebig]

omg ugly.

[FiatObscuritas]

@Ellebellebig lol

[gibrandogg]

f you dont have a eat that can allow you to appreciate a composition like this one then you have to understand his system in order to appreciate his music,

[glidingsparrow]

True, but that doesn't mean it can't sound like hell.

[lioz51092]

so what we need tonality for?

[johnstrieder]

@lioz51092 you're so right!

[fissionesque]

@lioz51092 The same reason we need this.

[BiggestPossible]

@glidingsparrow He's got a point. Obviously most people who are searching for Schönberg music are doing so because they like his music, but for most people it really does sound -- quite frankly -- bad. Schönberg's break from functional tonality is certainly an "acquired taste" if you will, and I don't except most people to like it.

[russischeloesung]

@BiggestPossible tonality sucks.

[Hagensblood]

Who's playing this?

[miximaxman]

genial