Arnold Schoenberg Puns

Because he refused to use any keys.

Serenade Op. 24 is my favorite classical work, and I like Lumpy Gravy by Frank Zappa which has some similar approaches. Anything else like this?

How many complete phrases are within this song? Is it 2, 4, 10 or none of the above (if none of the above how many phrases are there? I’d like to discuss this. I’ve been contemplating with a friend on this.

In half a year from now, on January 1st, 2022, all of the music of Arnold Schoenberg will reach its copyright expiration date. This means that the entire Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern) will all be in the public domain. To celebrate, let's create our own "covers" of all this music and upload them onto a bunch a free music websites, as well as Youtube! We can use any instruments, or even create an electronic cover if we want!

Oh, and a slight update from my previous post: I am fully aware that there are already copyrighted performances of these works available on YouTube. What I am suggesting is that we upload our own copyright-free performances or "covers" of these works ourselves. That is why I also mentioned free music websites. By copyright-free license I am of course referring to any music that doesn't have the non-commercial requirement, but rather is available to be used by anyone, for any purpose.

I recently got to listen to a live performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. I was shocked! It shares several themes with Bloodborne - pale blood, moon drunkenness, and invisible giant black moths to name a few... this is worth the read if you want to gain more insight into the topic!

I can't help but wonder if bloodborne was partially inspired by Schoenberg's piece. A stumbled upon an archived reddit post from 6 years ago with a comment claiming otherwise (https://www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/37nx8z/bloodborne_vis_a_vis_arnold_schoenbergs_pierrot/). It points out that while several themes are shared between the two, these can also be traced to inspiration from French Symbolism and German Expressionism of the late 19th/early 20 centuries, and their ties to Urban Gothic Romanticism.

While these are definitely inspired by the same roots, I am still unsatisfied; there seem to be far too many similarities between Bloodborne and Schoenberg's piece to ignore it entirely. Surely, if the writers of bloodborne were inspired by urban gothic literature, they would have also found inspiration in the music of that genre? Look at these examples:

1. From Mondestrunken (Moon-Drunk): "The writer, so divinely moved, Is greedy for the holy liquid, And skyward he directs his dizzy head, Then reeling, gulps and slurps down the wine which through our eyes we drink."
2. From Der Kranke Mond (The Sick Moon): " Your pale blood wrung from torment, Your nocturnal deathsick moon."
3. From Nacht (Night): "Black enormous butterflies have blotted out the sun's bright rays. And then earthwards from the sky, Flittering down with massive wingspan, Unperceived, the monstrous creatures, Light on human hearts and settle. Black enormous butterflies."
4. From Die Kreuze (The Crosses): "Swords gorged upon corpses, On Parade in blood scarlet!"
5. From Rote Messe (Red Mass): "With consecrated bearing He shows the anxious souls The dripping red Host: His heart - in bloodied fingers - For a terrible Last Supper."

It's fascinating to see! The story of Pierrot follows a comedian who flies too close to the moon (so to speak), verges on suicide, but then finds peace in himself. Here is the full text, followed by a complete recording: https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/song/2112 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b

Hello everyone,

I share with you a video in which I transformed an atonal melody by Arnold Schoenberg into a post rock song. I tried to prove that Serial Music has a place in popular music too.

This is my effort and I hope you find it useful and inspiring!
https://youtu.be/lTC7MN9S11E

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the composer’s death, Samuel Andreyev speaks with his youngest son, Lawrence Adam (Larry) Schoenberg. They talked about Schoenberg’s enduring legacy, what it was like growing up in the house in Brentwood Park, and the work Larry does with the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/266909/8889155

My dog likes to make

Big pieces of shit,

Eat them,

Then howl

As shit drips

From his mouth

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Schoenberg’s music. The melodies are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical atonality most of the themes will go over a typical listener’s head. There’s also his modernistic style, which is deftly woven into his compositions- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Alexander Zemlinsky composotions, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these nonmelodies, to realise that they’re not just meaningless- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Schoenberg truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the presence in Schoenberg’s existential fear of the number thirteen, which itself is a cryptic reference to his “Das Buch der hängenden Gärten“. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Arnold’s genius complex twelve tone works unfold themselves in their ears. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have a tattoo of my favorite melody of his. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

So I have eyeing this book for a while and I noticed that there is a 100th anniversary edition of the text. I have seen older editions for less and was wondering if anyone would know what new text is added to the 100th anniversary edition. Thanks!

I am not really a composer, I'm currently a piano performance major, but I love music theory and analysis and I wanted to read some of Schoenberg's book on composition and I was wondering, if there is some books I should read before others or can I read them in no particular order? I currently own Schoenberg's Fundamentals of musical composition, Structural Functions of harmony and Preliminary Exercises in Counterpoint. I also own Fux's gradus ad Parnassum. I see that he often mentions his Harmonielehre as a reference point in his other books and was wondering if reading it first would be a good idea?

I bought most of these when I began studying piano in college and my music theory knowledge wasn't good enough to really understand the content of these books, but now that I completed all 4 analysis classes, I feel like I should give it another try.

Came across it on Gershwin's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin Not sure if that's trustful, but I could believe it!

In half a year from now, on January 1st, 2022, all of the music of Arnold Schoenberg will reach its copyright expiration date. This means that the entire Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern) will all be in the public domain. To celebrate, let's create our own "covers" of all this music and upload them onto a bunch a free music websites, as well as Youtube! We can use any instruments, or even create an electronic cover if we want!

Oh, and a slight update from my previous post: I am fully aware that there are already copyrighted performances of these works available on YouTube. What I am suggesting is that we upload our own copyright-free performances or "covers" of these works ourselves. That is why I also mentioned free music websites. By copyright-free license I am of course referring to any music that doesn't have the non-commercial requirement, but rather is available to be used by anyone, for any purpose.

In half a year from now, on January 1st, 2022, all of the music of Arnold Schoenberg will reach its copyright expiration date. This means that the entire Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern) will all be in the public domain. To celebrate, let's create our own "covers" of all this music and upload them onto a bunch a free music websites, as well as Youtube! We can use any instruments, or even create an electronic cover if we want!

Oh, and a slight update from my previous post: I am fully aware that there are already copyrighted performances of these works available on YouTube. What I am suggesting is that we upload our own copyright-free performances or "covers" of these works ourselves. That is why I also mentioned free music websites. By copyright-free license I am of course referring to any music that doesn't have the non-commercial requirement, but rather is available to be used by anyone, for any purpose.