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Interview with Arnold Schoenberg

The Austrian composer discusses art, music, etc.  
 
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scumiex (1 month ago) Show Hide
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i have to compose a serialism music but i dont get how you compose it. like i know you have to follow the 12-note system but is the bottom and the top (piano) meant to follow their own seperate individual 12 note system...or do they have to be like sort of together? for example...at 3:42 i dont get how both hands work with serialism. thanks.
MusicaRicercata (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Culinary? Did someone fry a fish in a manner you didn't like?
Phalces (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Thank you for this excellent interview
ave5551 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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hola,
¿y ahora qué? ya estructuramos, ya desestructuramos, ya digitalizamos ¿Qué habrá luego?
revions (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Indeed, laurion. It didn't reach the 'common people'.

That means it didn't reach you. And you are a very 'common person', perhaps even too common!

Some people want to hear special things and not to conform themselves to average common things, that average boring common people only enjoy. ;-)

I hope you enjoy being so common. I enjoy other people being outstanding :-)
laurion69 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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There is nothing more extraordinary than to be really ordinary, my dear Revions.
revions (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Yes laurion, that is another way of really ordinary interpreting yourself as: gnothi seauton
Exanimousx (4 months ago) Show Hide
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I think Value judgments based on how "common" a said object are unhelpful. Different music has different levels of information density. If the information is coherent, but the density low, the piece isn't worse than another with just more information per second.

We have different temperaments, some like smaller ensembles with less complexity, others huge orchestras and very complicated textures.

The quality dichotomy between for example pop music and classical music is false for this reason.
revions (5 months ago) Show Hide
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@ flasherrt@. Move to a free country and your work will be read or performed, no matter in what style it is done.

When you can compose tonal music that really adds something to the western tradition, everybody will be happy to hear is. The problem however is that most composers that claim they compose in the 'true spirit of tradition' can't manage to compose a new interesting tonal work, but only repeat their idols and examples.
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Schoenberg is one of my favorite composers. Especially "ASurvivor of Warsaw," "Serinade for 7 Instruments" and "Five Pieces for Orchestra" He is taughted for inventing the Dodecaphonic method of composing but it to me anyway, is his incredibly colorful orchestration-such depth.

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