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Posted: October 29 2015 at 11:51
Polymorphia wrote:
Ozark Soundscape wrote:
Schoenberg tests my patience, definitely, but out of his string quartets I've enjoyed a fair amount of it. Second quartet is pretty good imo.
I'll have to give that a listen. With Webern there are a lot of subtle things going on sonically. With Berg there were moments of tonality that made the atonal parts more bleak. I'm just not quite sure what Schoenberg was going for. I do have yet to listen to his Quartets though.
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Posted: October 29 2015 at 11:57
If you want something more tonal from Webern, try "Im Sommerwind", a tone poem that he wrote early on while he was studying with Schoenberg. Really beautiful piece with nothing "weird" going on.
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Posted: October 29 2015 at 12:13
Padraic wrote:
Ozark Soundscape wrote:
I don't get the point of Webern at all.
I don't understand - he was a core of the Second Viennese School and had significant influence on a lot of 20th century avant-garde composers. Now, if you don't like his stuff, no problem, but he very much "had a point".
Okay, let me rephrase. I've found the Webern pieces I've listened to to be pointless.
Also, now that I think of it, haven't liked a lot of the Bach I've heard. Sounds very pompous to me.
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Posted: October 30 2015 at 08:52
I hate Debussy. Not because his music is awful, I think it's very creative and complex at times, but when I have to play Debussy it's so frustrating he uses quite unusual keys and as a result, takes a lot of time to study and you have to check every chord you play each time you play it. I mean the amount of black keys is quite high and the chords are creative and not really what you'd expect in any way ...
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Posted: October 30 2015 at 12:31
DDPascalDD wrote:
I hate Debussy. Not because his music is awful, I think it's very creative and complex at times, but when I have to play Debussy it's so frustrating he uses quite unusual keys and as a result, takes a lot of time to study and you have to check every chord you play each time you play it. I mean the amount of black keys is quite high and the chords are creative and not really what you'd expect in any way ...
Lol personally I think that'd make me like him more, but I like a challenge.
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Posted: October 30 2015 at 14:14
DDPascalDD wrote:
I hate Debussy. Not because his music is awful, I think it's very creative and complex at times, but when I have to play Debussy it's so frustrating he uses quite unusual keys and as a result, takes a lot of time to study and you have to check every chord you play each time you play it. I mean the amount of black keys is quite high and the chords are creative and not really what you'd expect in any way ...
Wait till you have to play Ravel. The harmonic structure of Debussy plus the hand stretches of Chopin.
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Posted: November 01 2015 at 08:13
Polymorphia wrote:
DDPascalDD wrote:
I hate Debussy. Not because his music is awful, I think it's very creative and complex at times, but when I have to play Debussy it's so frustrating he uses quite unusual keys and as a result, takes a lot of time to study and you have to check every chord you play each time you play it. I mean the amount of black keys is quite high and the chords are creative and not really what you'd expect in any way ...
Wait till you have to play Ravel. The harmonic structure of Debussy plus the hand stretches of Chopin.
the hand stretches are no problem for me since I have extremely huge hands. unfortunately I have extremely huge feet as well. I have to have my shoes custom-made because there aren't any in my size
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