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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: Berg
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.061618.13164@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <1992Dec22.081306.28194@cs.unibo.it> <1992Dec22.173348.9371@viewlogic.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:16:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.173348.9371@viewlogic.com> brad@buck.viewlogic.com (Bradford Kellogg) writes:
- >mesmerized by) a recording of Wozzeck. The nighttime scene in the barracks
- >is really astonishing. The effect Berg gets with the chorus doing a sotto
- >voce representation of the soldiers sleeping, while Wozzeck lies awake and
- >starts a plaintive lament, is transfixing.
-
- >Of course, the music is not exactly melodic in the old fashioned sense,
- >with Berg following the 12 tone model.
-
- Say what? Are you *sure* you've been listening to Wozzeck? Much of
- the music *is* melodious (expressly intended that way) and there are
- no tone-rows in the piece, which is not surprising, given that Berg
- composed it before Schoenberg had shared any of his 12-tone ideas with
- anyone.
-
- >But if Schoenberg doesn't frighten you, neither should Berg.
-
- That should read: even if Schoenberg frightens you, Berg shouldn't.
- Berg is much easier to listen to.
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- Roger
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