Sally Burgess, Pierrot Lunaire, 18.Der Mondfleck (The Moonfleck)
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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!
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somehow this is intellectually satisfying
if you understand what's going on musically
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have to study this for a music final.
i'm a business major.
fml.
p.s. how is this more liked than "Friday"?
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i just started studying for this final, and this is what i have to listen to at 3 in the morning.
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@ChelsieeeAnn MUS 4?
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Music history has brought me to this. God help me
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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.
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fffffffuuuuuuuu
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@GodlyWill Ditto!
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Forced to watch this for class. :(
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.
zinchey 1 year ago 29
I have no idea what Schoenberg was thinking, but this is musical vomit. Yuck.
AnimaniacZero 1 year ago 12