PSmith08
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I have dealt with the same issues with Schoenberg, but - ultimately - I think that there is an inherent disconnect with him, and the rest of the modern composers. The lack of a musical geography, for me, created a gulf, so to speak, between composers like Mahler and Wagner and the later individuals (i.e., the Second Viennese School and their students).
Perhaps, in retrospect, this is my problem with modern (as in the style, not the chronological sense) composers. In their haste to innovate, they abandoned the safe, sequential musical geography that begins (for all intents and purposes) with Bach.
Originally Posted by Bunnyears It's funny, but the only music I have ever had to work to connect to have all been 20th century works. Bach and earlier works, Beethoven, Mahler, Rock, folk, jazz, swing, Tibetan chant, Classical Chinese, Japanese, Indian (subcontinent) etc. have all come easily. It's the later 20th century works that have demanded work. It took months and months for me to connect to George Crumb, Ives and Cage (and Schoenberg and Webern for that matter). I don't know what it is about certain later composers but they just did not come naturally to me. |
I have dealt with the same issues with Schoenberg, but - ultimately - I think that there is an inherent disconnect with him, and the rest of the modern composers. The lack of a musical geography, for me, created a gulf, so to speak, between composers like Mahler and Wagner and the later individuals (i.e., the Second Viennese School and their students).
Perhaps, in retrospect, this is my problem with modern (as in the style, not the chronological sense) composers. In their haste to innovate, they abandoned the safe, sequential musical geography that begins (for all intents and purposes) with Bach.