ENGLISH 125D Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Misogyny, Syphilis, Music Theory
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Austrian jewish composer, main figure in 2nd vienna school (modernist avant-garde movement) invented 12 tone technique/chromatic scale, closed syst of composition, motifs composed w/o melodic structure. Work assoc w/ aesthetic dissonance, tracing dissolution of ger culture. 12-tone technique = a way to destroy melody (w/ melody, we anticipate the next note; Centrality in 2 things: adrian"s orientation towards music (inner musicality, mother tongue inherited from her); also links musicality to concept of love. Caritas - zeitblom"s interpretation of love - not romantic or motherly, but a certian kind of empathy for humankind. Musicality w/o intention, zeitblom focuses on how mom seems w/o artifice, not. Key element of pact w/ devil: adrian abandons love. Could interpret as living in state of isolated no me tangere . Can"t have caritas, empathetic love for ppl around him; and the music he produces is also of dissonance or negation, also denied the quality of love/harmony/melody.
