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The Rest Is Noise
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: sean on 29 Jan 2011, 13:18 ---paging paul to this thread, paul, to this thread please.
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Schoenberg, then...
Well, I read his Harmonielehre (at school) before I listened to any of his music! Actually, I've not really got into Schoenberg - I only properly know the small piano pieces (Opp 11 & 19) which my son plays and I've dabbled with. I've a passing acquaintance with other stuff, of course, but generally I'm more into Berg, starting with the Op 1 Piano Sonata (a marvellous outpouring of late romanticism, which my son used to play at school), and going on through the Lyric Suite (do you know the version with voice in the last movement?), and of course the operas (I saw Wozzeck recently in a production that changed the location to a baked-bean canning factory - weird... and the singer I'd specially gone to see was ill).
The Rest is Noise I've only dipped into so far, but I enjoy the writing, and there's certainly some good stuff there. But I offer you a different reading challenge: A Concise History of Western Music by Paul Griffiths. Nothing is omitted - he doesn't even reach the year 1400 until chapter 4, while the end reaches beyond 2000 - and all in barely 300 pages of wonderful writing and beautifully condensed and sequenced thought. I find it particularly good for showing the relationships between all the different strands of development.
Scandanavian War Machine:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Feb 2011, 14:49 ---But I offer you a different reading challenge: A Concise History of Western Music by Paul Griffiths. Nothing is omitted - he doesn't even reach the year 1400 until chapter 4, while the end reaches beyond 2000 - and all in barely 300 pages of wonderful writing and beautifully condensed and sequenced thought. I find it particularly good for showing the relationships between all the different strands of development.
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This sounds badass. Gonna have to remember to look for it when i have money.
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: ALoveSupreme on 29 Jan 2011, 22:16 ---Schoenberg was badass, in this music appreciation CD I got and still have, I was always all about a composition of his called a Survivor in Warsaw which was a narrative combined with his twelve tone scale. All of his contemporaries (Berg, etc) were sweet too but I haven't really studied any of them since high school so my memory is a little hazy.
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I think I have the same CD you have. Kamien or something like that? I really like how you could tell that Schoenberg and his contemporaries were really pushing the limits of the instruments they had available at the time. I wonder what they would have done if they had lived long enough to see electronic instruments like we have today.
Also, noise?
sean:
yeah wow i dont want this post to exist anymore so it never happened
Nodaisho:
What?
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