Sally Burgess, Pierrot Lunaire, 18.Der Mondfleck (The Moonfleck)

[petezilla]

I learned about the underlying organization of the music to this piece in a class recently, which is of such a high degree as to be truly insane in the context of what it sounds like.. good thing the character is supposed to be insane, though!

[danilol7]

somehow this is intellectually satisfying

if you understand what's going on musically

[GTASAFreak14]

have to study this for a music final.

i'm a business major.

fml.

p.s. how is this more liked than "Friday"?

[knham323]

i just started studying for this final, and this is what i have to listen to at 3 in the morning.

[ChelsieeeAnn]

Music history has brought me to this. God help me

[gotdangos]

@ChelsieeeAnn MUS 4?

[JessicaYanez8543]

Since everyone else talking about it..I'll add one..Yes, I have to listen to this for class also =/ gives me a headache. I find this hard to appreciate musically...but I get the concept behind it.

[RAHHicecream]

fffffffuuuuuuuu

[GodlyWill]

Forced to watch this for class. :(

[RAHHicecream]

@GodlyWill Ditto!

[ToniD3476]

sounds like a preschooler banging on the piano...I guess it would be entertaining if I knew what was going on.

[aasmith18]

Seriously? I have to watch this for class?!

[ummcarter]

Final this week :/

[Zegeebwah]

It's hilarious everyone is on here because they have to watch this crap for a class!!!!

[misterbonk12]

i got my final tomorrow :/



[TheHuMoCa]

@fury098 I hate monday finals

[ksingler22]

@fury098 haha there is no way in hell i would be listening to this if i wasn't. look up poeme electronique. its.......wonderful.

[Tacoma3243]

@fury098 Hell yeah, I would have never watched this if I wasn't...I actually have my exam in about 4 hours

[lowkeygoddess]

i need to know this song for school.

[slartibartfast8787]

Madness?! THIS! IS! SCHOENBERG!!!

[zinchey]

Schoenberg wrote this as an expressionist piece where dissonance and twelve-tone melody was all part of this. This sounds crazy because he is evoking the idea of a person seeing moon light on his shoulder but thinking it is a peice of plaster. The person becomes so obsessed with this he is driven to lunacy. That is why the vocalist sings it like that and why it sound sort of like musical vomit to the uniformed ear. There is actually a pattern and plan to it.

[lowkeygoddess]

@zinchey If your ideas help me pass tommorow's exam (in music class), I will be so grateful that I passed by your wonderful comment.

[zinchey]

@lowkeygoddess Glad I could help, I had to learn about it for my survey of music lit class and a little in my theory class :-)

[HuiUPSB]

@zinchey just have someone turn pascal's triangle into music then...

I don't enjoy this much but it is interesting...everytime I read about Shoenburg I laugh...

[ummcarter]

@zinchey this is not twelve tone. he comes out with 12 tones about 8 years after he wrote this

[GrindOverMatter2]

@zinchey Correction, at this point in shoenburgs carreer he had not yet utilized the system that we call now call 12 tone rows. This piece is based on earlier ideas such as fugues, cannons, and mirrors

[xxxDolceMelodiesxxx]

Honestly....I respect Schoenberg, but I just find the sprechstimme a bit too much O___O;;

[TheLordSpitfire]

this is how my nightmares look like.... :/

[Ilovecoffeex12]

@TheLordSpitfire WHY did I laugh so loudly when I read this?! XD XD XD

[freddieedwards100]

thats wickiddy wickiddy wack!

[ProgWill91]

This song cycle deals with human insanity. It's supposed to be a little off kilter. There are plenty of elements in the instrumentation and execution of this piece that make sense if you just look at the text. Plus, the vocal performance is in "sprechstimme" (speech song) so each interpretation varies greatly from the next.

[P1B1U1H1]

This is amazing.

[SuigintousCross]

This peice is crap

[790936]

I love this song! I needed to listen to this because in today's society and the things that are going on inside my head, I feel that this song reflects my chaotic mind right now. Madness, chaos, destruction, anger, frustration, everything that I begin to hate about pop culture and it's ringleaders.

[monstrar18]

Oh goodness... :(

[SuperDrinkin]

what the hell is this... i'm glad i'm only taking music only one semester.. jeezzz

[790936]

@SuperDrinkin this is music! This is madness! THIS IS MOONFLECK!!

[MoscowMaestro]

@SuperDrinkin  stay home, yankee

[peng1lady]

Are you looking for the term "Sprechstimme?" Or are you looking for the Klangfarbenmelodie, which refers to the fact that each note of the melody is played by a different instrument?

[jadeedgesigma]

100 extra credit points to anyone who can tell me what kind of vocals these are.

[AnimaniacZero]

I have no idea what Schoenberg was thinking, but this is musical vomit. Yuck.

[MoscowMaestro]

@AnimaniacZero  Then stick to Barry Manilow

[YugoRocketsFan]

Who composed this, should be shot

[MoscowMaestro]

@YugoRocketsFan Yeah, that's exactly what the Nazis thought, that's why they put Schoenberg on the death-list with other composers they didn't like. Guess you must idolise Hitler too, huh??

[Saxymanda87]

Great performance! The moon spot on the shoulder could have been better. To those who think it's shit....music, theater, and art in general had to begin somewhere. Don't be so quick to judge. For real! Have some respect and just accept things for the way they are.

[pantsuck10]

the women singing sounds overweight

[ddude081]

this type of music was not supposed to necessarily sound pretty it was expressionism in music. Fabulous performance

[ghostykips]

I get it. I totally understand the expressionism implied. I also agree it's shit.

[kamikrazi123]

I'm sorry but serialism art is retarded.. atonality was invented by idiots

[eatmepeaches]

@kamikrazi123 I agree haha. I had to listen to this song for a test in my music class, it's ridiculous.

[tjmixmasta]

@kamikrazi123 Surrealism, you mean? But yeah, this sounds like garbage...

[kamikrazi123]

@tjmixmasta nah its serialism aka twelve-tone. People think being creative with music deems it worthy as a form of art.

[zavortink]

@kamikrazi123 this piece isn't serial or 12 tone it's just free atonality. This was written in 1912 before Schoenberg had invented 12 tone music

[alex2519602009]

This one is pretty funny, Pierrot thinks that the moon on his coat is a speck of plaster and is trying to rub it off until morning

[flaggenbaggen121]

THIS IS SHIT

[murich1989]

i agree

[murich1989]

No it's not. I don't understand why people like this garbage.

[adcoled]

because you're ugly

[mozartfan2008]

This is such a great performance. Thanks for posting!

[ocskater10]

This music is lovely