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 Arnold Schoenberg
Description: Artist: Composer / Genre: Classical Newest Review: ... music (Miraculous Mandarin), and others just kept on churning out what they had done before (Strauss - Der RosenKavalier). ... more  ... Schoenberg, however, decided to set classical music on a path that nearly led to its own self destruction. Schoenberg opened the gates to atonality, or, as he calls it, pantonality (meaning several keys at once.) Yet he found writing this music to be emotionally exhausting, only able to write short works as he could only bare his sole for limited periods of time. So he set about formulating a theory - as if an equation could produce good music. What he finally developed he named 12-note music (not the mistaken ame...more |
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Arnold Schoenberg: Taking the wrong route (312 words)
by Tubbyman - written on 19.02.01 (Useful, 58 readings)
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At the beginning of the twentieth century composers were faced with a problem. Composers like Strauss and Wagner had stretched the limits of conventional tonality to the limit, increasing chromaticm to an almost continuous level. Basically everything had been done before. So many composers were looking for new ideas, some like Stravinsky, turned to Neo-Clacissism (The Rake's Progress), others, Bartok, turned to folk music (Miraculous Mandarin), and others just kept on churning out what they had done before (Strauss - Der RosenKavalier). Schoenberg, however, decided to set classical music on a path that nearly led to its own self destruction. ...
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