Dodecaphony, Atonal Music.

Sorry... I can't play like this for real so I made a midi file. Schoenberg constructed the rules this music has. I thought the rules were kind of interesting and plotted out some notes.

Here's sheet music:
http://www.speedyshare.com/files/22555873/atonal_p_konstig_delux.pdf

The intro isn't in this pdf, but it can be seen at the outro.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Twelve-tone
• technique
• Arnold
• Schoenberg
• Wagner
• Stravinskij
• Neu-classic
• Dodecaphony

[HairballPaul]

The imperfections in the video are fascinating. How did you make the video part?

Music's alright :P

[tomasahlin]

@HairballPaul

I used one of the effects in "windows movie maker" Don't remember which one.. but I thought only having a photo would be boring so I added some effect :)

[michaelmigdat]

When people go to hell Satin locks them in a room that is constantly playing this song while little dwarfs spit on you.

[annefrankisaho]

@iorost

Of course it's not. Thrash metal bands wrote in a fairly tonal idiom, for all their violence. Schoenberg makes them look like babies.

[yVivaPeronCarajo]

que esta mierda es una mierda

[hamett]

a partir de 1:20 es asombroso!

[ruiran0326]

@GrammarNazify have you studied any piano theory? if you have then you would know that there's a concept behind this music

[ruiran0326]

@michalmigdat @Wizmar this only sounds boring because its a midi file - no musicality at all... but great job composing the piece @tomasahlin

[Wizmar]

This makes me want to kill myself.

[KhagarBalugrak]

This is so homoerotic

[surfchick94]

isnt it called the twelve tone row? not dodecaphony?

[zenmachinefilms]

I studied this in college some 20 years ago. I never really liked it much at all, though I have to admit it helped open my ear, and mind, and aspects of it made an impression upon me.

Glenn Gould's treatment of Schoenberg is surprisingly lyrical for those looking for something easier to listen to than this here.

[Masterful6O]

@annefrankisaho using another language doesn't mean being more violent, I bet a skilled composer could compose music as soothing as Mozart's using dodecaphonism... to the ears willing to accept it.

[annefrankisaho]

Schoenberg can be offputting because of the mathematical concepts he melodically constructed from, but the important thing to remember is that it wasn't a restriction; he broke his own rules when it was artistically viable. Atonalism and the stuff it's associated with was only a device to break out of the late-romantic idiom and find new building blocks for organic, human art.