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  • This is insane. Having never heard Schoenberg before, I am amazed at the high this is giving me.

  • love

  • The Nazis preferred the beer hall songs and Wagner I'm guessing. That and the skinhead punk rock music of the late 70s and early 80s. Musical retards.

  • @ebonics4everyone Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart, Bruckner, Haydn, Schumann, Schubert, Bach, Handel, maybe Brahms...you know, all those crappy composers.

    /sarcasm off

  • What did the Nazis think of Schoenberg? My guess: not really positively.

  • haters gonna hate

  • sighing at the people talking about how this has no flow and how it's not music. Yes, most people wouldn't listen to this for pleasure but think of it this way. Music is an art, and in visual art there's the pretty landscapes and portraits, and then there's abstract art - meant to express, make you think or feel. Well consider this "abstract music." It's intended to create a mood (which is why you probably thought horror movie when listening to it) so just appreciate it for what it is.

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  • @MaestroTJS Why does this never go away? There are Pollocks in hotel rooms, or Joyce on high school syllabuses, but people still refuse to accept the fact that in music, just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not worthy of merit, that just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's inexcusably pretentious. Music is subjective, and you nor I get to decide what is and isn't "talent." I can't make you like Schoenberg - just don't villianize those who do.

  • why he chose to explore this emotion of music is beyond me. Worst of all... He completely lacks flow. If I were to fix his music, I would start with adding transitional notes, and then end by throwing all of it out. This is an insult to music.

  • @SOSTacoJohnson Music is about flow? How can you make such a limiting statement? Of course music is the perception of relationships over sound (or lack of a relationship) over time. So when a composition disrupts the sense of "flow", and creates a sense of uneasiness, of confusion, is this a bad thing? It's "dramatic flow"

  • @monkeysinfezzes NO, the uneasiness that is created relates only to a mood it invokes in us. That is accomplished by the actual notes. The structure, you are referring to, affects our mood b/c it is unpredictable and chaotic.

    Now to crush your argument. Look up, using the oxford dictionary, the definition of flow. Then try to understand with me, that when I say music is about a relationship created by notes (flow), we are assuming that there is a RELATIONSHIP, NOT A LACK of relationship.

  • @SOSTacoJohnson I think you're incorrect in your assessment that there is no relationship among the notes in this piece. Perhaps there is a relationship that you are unable to see. In fact, an understanding of twelve-tone technique reveals that there are indeed incredibly strict rules governing the relationship among the notes.

  • @TennysonXII I'm not saying there is no correlation... I dont think you'veread wat was written.

  • @MaestroTJS how so bullied? You're saying there is pressure to sound like schoenberg? Somehow I feel like you are amplifying your own personal experiences on the music world as a whole.

  • @SOSTacoJohnson I went to a concert recently where composer Jennifer Higdon spoke at the intermission. She said that when she was in university, professors would not allow anyone to write major/minor chords--automatic fail. That is only one example, but not the only one. Composition schools in general have the avant-garde as a focus, though this might be changing a bit now. For much of the last century, however, the serialists ruled the roost and put down other composers' music viciously.

  • @MaestroTJS Well if you are a brilliant producer, shouldn't you simply be aware of this reality? & in turn wouldn't you never be concerned with a pretender as such you describe?

  • @MaestroTJS I'm sorry to hear that.

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  • This is great music!!! All it duz is express a feeling or emotion. Like the theory of another parallel universe, This the "other side" of music!!

  • It's strange reading most of these comments, and many people seem to focus on literally "searching" for melodies to hum. And this is coming from a composer, why can't we just appreciate the method, and simply get washed in the intense, rough, carnal passions found in the music. Dissonance causes "Oooh!"

  • @monkeysinfezzes b/c music is about flow. thats what makes something musical.  Trying to make music without flow, is like trying to fart and catch it in your hands.

  • @monkeysinfezzes "Intense, rough, carnal passions...." Huh? Where is that in this?

  • Esta música es la APOLOGIA DEL MATERIALISMO. Es EL SONIDO POR EL SONIDO MISMO. Basura judia decadente. En el futuro,esto sera un "MAL EXPERIMENTO ARTISTICO".

  • Schoenberg's hard boiled atonality calms me down in times of anxiety, fear, and despair.

  • Arnold Schoenberg, the most dangerous man who ever lived!

  • It's a shame the sound quality ain't all that brilliant... since this really is a masterpiece of dissonance and atonality.

  • @BSftw1337omG

    Its hard to have true dissonance without tonality. And I'm not sure that Schoenberg was all that into dissonance

  • Schoenberg made this quartet easily to follow with the unmistakable rhythmic pattern that comes with the initial presentation of the row. It's actually singable.

  • musique géniale

  • i dont think this recording is very good, its really hard to hear the intensity for some reason and gradations in dynamics

  • Over time and try to imagine a les comfortable life with flashycolors & cars and American culture in general and maybe the attractive shapes,new ,surprising,manic,sad,antic,se­rious .This music is trying to give u all of life not just a small part.this is 21st century .A lotta horrible and epochal things have happened. Why cant beauty be a gray rothko. LIFE IS BIG PEOPLE start withSkryabin,Wagner just FEELIT .Adorno was wrong it aint BRECHT!!!

  • @lovesGenet i still like schubert better. breathtaking compared to this ear-grating factory music

  • 12 tone music rules and everything schoenberg ever did probably rules too

  • Incredible

  • I do not understand how he can consider it as an art?

    This is a disaster!!!

  • @lior15192 It's a species of chamber music--torture chamber music. The more hideous the sound, the better to punish malefactors.

  • @lior15192 There are plenty of Lady Gaga channels for you to enjoy ! Why make your ears bleed with sophisticated serious music that takes some effort to enjoy.

  • I don't get this

  • Listen to the fleeting similarities to passages from the Violin Concerto, esp opening bars and 1:26 to 1:35 which is not surprising since they were written about the same time. All in all it is a pleasant work to my ears.

  • Listen to the fleeting similarities to passages from the Violin Concerto, esp opening bars and 1:26 to 1:35 which is not surprising since they were written about the same time. All in all it is a pleasant work to my ears.

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  • Maybe it was because of my extremely negative initial reaction to Stockhausen, but Schoenberg never really troubled my ears. Apart from 12-tone, he certainly knew properly design a piece so that the listener could make sense of and enjoy it in some way, even without an attractive melody.

  • Then don't listen to it.

  • Well it depends on one's interest in music. And yes, it would be practically impossible to hum this piece.

  • Music isn't about humming. In a similar vein, art isn't always about liking a work.

  • Brahms was a great composer? When did this stupid idea ever come into mind?

  • You might as well be saying "long live the old Aryan Ideals of art, this is Jewish entartete Kunst." You obviously have no knowledge in art asides from what your mind tells you in identifying "degenerative art".

  • There's a couple of extraordinary Schoenberg Concertos (Violin, Op.36 and Piano, Op.42) just waiting to be listened to! Try Hilary Hahn, vn or M.Uchida, pno.

  • Very good upload.

  • As far as atonal composers go (to group all of them like that is absurd to start with) Schoenberg actually uses many standard compositional principles regarding rhythm, harmony, voice leading, and especially structure. There's a nice article by Berg (one of Schoenberg's students) called "Why is Schoenberg's music so hard to listen to?" It uses examples from one of his tonal works to help explain why his atonal and serial works aren't easy to wrap your mind around on the first listening.

  • This is EXACTLY why I almost exclusively listen to Baroque era music.

  • Well that's a shame, you're missing out on a ton of great medieval, renaissance, classical, romantic and 20th century composers. Thanks for the info...

  • ...

  • ooh boy I have two weeks to learn this monster. cool stuff, but soooo hard!

  • Disharmony with pattern, as though it were harmony..Its kind of cool, but youd think that his music would sound more diverse, being what it is and all, but it all sounds pretty similar so i Dont see the point.

    Listen to Chopins Concertos if you want to see music encompassing every note geniusly.

  • "it all sounds pretty similar"

    you're just not listening close enough my friend

  • agreed, these works employ a myriad of ideas that are never the same and exausted by developmental variation. thats partly y 12 tone was concieved so that structure was easier, but with the same diversity.

  • chopin's concertos are probably the worst example of his genius. And why compare Schoenberg to Chopin anyway? I love both, as I'm sure many others do.

  • "chopin's concertos are probably the worst example of his genius" very well said, sir, with the possible exception of the romance from the e minor concerto

  • His music is very diverse, you just haven't developed the ears to listen to it. It isn't something that happens right away for most people. While there were a few pieces I liked (such as the sextet, lunaire, and survivor) it took me a long time to be able to hear his music as just that and still most of the piano music is too traditional for me. Schoenberg requires a lot of the listener which is why so few people like him.

  • Harmonically it is very diverse. To see this only requires a modicum of close listening.

  • the truth is that I dont like it.

  • yeah, I get what you mean..I mean I know I'll get a lot of thumbs down on my comment, but I a lot of Schoenberg's music I really dislike. It's just...so bitter. When I listen to it, there's no good feeling I have. It's different with other atonal composers, mainly Salonen, I LOVE Esa-Pekka Salonen's music...Schoenberg's music..I just can't like his music :/

  • if that's true then why are you here?

  • Well I'm trying to be open to new music and I was being optimistic and hoping maybe I'd like his music, but I came out yet again disappointed. I mean, people DO have a right to say if something's bad, people have their preferences. I mean, after all, that's what comments are for, good feedback or bad feedback. It's stupid to just have good comments, then you have no idea what's the downside to it if all you're getting is one side of opinions.

  • Yes except it starts with one bad comment and ends up just pages and pages of arguments and trashing of good legit music. I'm not saying your comment was especially offensive it's just that it starts somewhere and gets bad fast and that's totally unneccessary. I love Schoenberg by the way and just cuz you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad, though hopefully you didn't mean to but just accidentally implied that.

  • this is tha music!!!

  • Sublime !

  • gracias por publicar este documento.

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