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Valrus:

--- Quote from: FeralCats ---I've heard some Boulez-it's really fascinating. The main argument against modern composition/avant garde composition is that it's breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules. I disagree-a lot of the pieces follow the rules, simply not how you expect them too.
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Hell, that fucker Boulez had more rules than anyone else. And Schoenberg made a name for himself by being the first to come up with rules for atonal composition.

Paradoxically, Boulez's piano music tends to sound like someone randomly banging on the keyboard, in spite of all those rules. His chamber piece Le Marteau sans Maître is somewhat more palatable; since it has more timbres in it, the dissonance and other craziness isn't quite so jarring.

Anyone heard Pierrot Lunaire?

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