Berg Wozzeck Act III, sc. 3

(Invention on a rhythm)

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Music

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• Berg
• Wozzeck
• III/3

[aswallom]

I remember reading a book about Stephen Sondheim which quoted an interview where he was asked about his musical influences; he named this work, adding that he doesn't like most operas, but this one was one of the few that he really liked, especially since the music was, in his eyes, perfectly integrated into the drama. Every note contributes to the atmosphere of madness, despair, and death of Büchner's original play.

[catastrouph39]

scarrrryyyy music i love

[lordfarty]

berg is my hero!

[brandon71085]

@wesleyan97 What I meant is that he implements tone-rows, and that the notes that make up the other voices running paralel to that melody are created to distinctly contrast the voice more 'forward' in the texture. That there is, in a sense, an ECONOMY to his part writing that is similar to Bach is the point I was trying to make. I know that in composing this opera Berg didn't adhere to the rigidity of Schoenberg's method. It still doesn't mean it isn't derived from it.

[wesleyan97]

@brandon71085 Wozzeck is not a 12-tone work. it's freely atonal.

[yeduhin]

I love the music- and the text....Awesome

[Voidroid]

@TubeFreakification o_O That's a pretty big almost.

[TubeFreakification]

German and English sound so much alike that you could ALMOST call them dialects

[hkpopfan4lif3]

never was a fan of expressionist music

too atonal/dissonant for me

[puchiarab1]

vo-tech!!

[followthehatecrewild]

German opera for the most part is pretty hard to get into in the first place, it just has a different darker atmosphere than italian or french, it's probably because of the somewhat abrasive quality of the language itself. But Berg takes it to the next level, I love it though.

[thedrumbum1990]

I love the way there isnt any blood on his right arm...