Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Method (English)

Introduction to the twelve-tone method of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Austrian composer.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Schoenberg
• Schönberg
• Twelve
• Tone
• Method
• Dodecaphony
• Zwölftontechnik

[vivvpprof]

There's a mistake at 2:45 in the second staff there should be d# instead of d at the end. It's played correctly, though, only the score is mistaken.

[redcassette]

many people and composers (john age etc) say all sound is music...the basis of music in nature could be named as wind, anything physical colliding and so on. we have just manipulated those natural things and produced instruments that need those elements to make sounds. Tones exist in nature....rhythm exists in nature and so on. so music is within our subconcious and has manifested itself in many idioms, all of which are subjective. lets just listen....

[FreeVonHelton]

@redcassette Puerile sophistry from an artistically and philosophically emaciated being.

[30inventionman]

Schoenberg devoted his life to twelve tone music. He knew Webern.

[ClueBand]

@redcassette What's all this Romantic nonsense? ;-) (I believe that music is very much of a man made product and that any order or sense we see in the universe is just a product of our mind, not of an underlining language or mind behind the universe... order and similarities are just an emerging property from chaos, but our mind adds meaning to it).

[MarcPopeTV]

@philateliceun what if it is not perceived as music?

[TheJotwilight1]

love it



[CaramelMarshmallow]

@redcassette Yes, but you have to consider the compositional abilities and objective merits involved in writing the Goldberg Variations, and in banging sticks against rocks while listening to the wind blow.

[kevinnowhow]

@redcassette Very well put.

[thirdcreed]

or as a small 10 minute section that I am intently listening to.

[thirdcreed]

@thirdcreed fulfilling. Certainly those that had going through the existentialism and ambiguity of the post-war period would have found congruence with this music and their insane world, which they were now connected and educated enough to appreciate the insanity of while still being in someway connected. It represents the absolute horror you feel from looking at the world we live in closely. That being said...for me, this stuff is only enjoyable in small doses. Either as incidental music...

[thirdcreed]

@PraecoNoctis True, that probably is a reason people violently reject it. The question I think we should ask is not "Is it music?", but "Is it valuable?". Tragedy and sadness are often depicted by a traditional tonal scheme, this is seldom questioned as being valuable, even though we generally try to avoid being sad. Perhaps because we enjoy truth, as much as we enjoy beauty. Hence: "Truth is beauty, beauty is truth". When you find a piece accurately describing your experiences it is