Second Viennese Hijack
Good ol’ Radio 3. They try hard to alienate their core listenership. Today, Sunday, 10 a.m. Let’s do the Second Viennese School! – A Happy Hour of atonality, just the ticket to liven up a damp, dull, post-Christmas morning.
Or I am massively missing the point? Maybe you can and do appreciate this music which to my ear has no identifiable or memorable: melody, tonality, harmonic progression, rhythmic motifs, developmental structure… let alone the “Gestalt” which brings the satisfaction I experience after, say, a Beethoven symphony or a Schubert lied. If you have the key to the stuff, do let me know so I can unlock and enjoy it too. I am fascinated that the music endures
and even more stunned that it accrues its overall name, coat-tailing the first Viennese school whose music triumphs in popularity and critical acclaim, comparatively, by several orders of magnitude.
Oh – it’s all just been redeemed. I enjoyed the last chord of Schoenberg’s 2nd Chamber Symphony but I think that it may have been a mistake on his part. It was a diatonic minor triad. Its crescendo was quite effective, to
boot.
Happy New Year!
Or I am massively missing the point? Maybe you can and do appreciate this music which to my ear has no identifiable or memorable: melody, tonality, harmonic progression, rhythmic motifs, developmental structure… let alone the “Gestalt” which brings the satisfaction I experience after, say, a Beethoven symphony or a Schubert lied. If you have the key to the stuff, do let me know so I can unlock and enjoy it too. I am fascinated that the music endures
and even more stunned that it accrues its overall name, coat-tailing the first Viennese school whose music triumphs in popularity and critical acclaim, comparatively, by several orders of magnitude.
Oh – it’s all just been redeemed. I enjoyed the last chord of Schoenberg’s 2nd Chamber Symphony but I think that it may have been a mistake on his part. It was a diatonic minor triad. Its crescendo was quite effective, to
boot.
Happy New Year!
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