jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (05/07/84)
I remembered today that when I was 10 I didn't like the Franck Symphony because I thought it was "too dissonant". What one may learn to like! Want to get into Schoenberg? Don't bother with "Verklarte nacht" or "Gurrelieder". They're not bad but they're not what Schoenberg "is about". The first mainstream 12-tone piece of his that really impressed me was "ode to napoleon". It's still one of my favorites. The ending isn't exactly representative of most 12-tone music, but it's harmonically perfectly logical (at least to my ear) and seems to make row sense, too, though I'm hardly an expert in that field. So much for the "anti-harmonic" charges levelled at Schoenberg. If you like "easy listening" I'm not sure what you'll think of this piece, but if otherwise, enjoy! Jeff Winslow ps: puccini was said to love Schoenberg's "pierrot lunaire". Hmmm.