MUSIC 408A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kraken In Comics, Erik Satie, Anton Webern
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Serialism: atonal before wwi, exploring subconscious, expressionism. Society for private musical performances, 1918-21: supported music of arnold schoenberg, berg, webern, scriabin, debussy and other. Iv. avant-garde artists: subscribers only pay fee, no commercialism, no critics/media allowed, no fashion/popular references, society imploded because of budgeting, marxists, in favor of socialism. Twelve-tone technique/dodecaphonism/ serialism : organize music without the use of tonic: about intervals, not notes, break row into chords combined re-distributed (klangfarbenmelodie, op. 26, schoenberg, 1923-24: one of his earliest twelve-tone pieces: 6 tones: hexachord, werner reinhardt: patron of modernism, supporter of schoenberg, clarinetist, organicism: counterpoint relates on every level. 21 (symphony) 1928: movement 1: sonata binary form, palindrome (mm. 34-34 mirror: movement 2: theme and variations. Erik satie and dada: anti-progress, reason, rationality, in art and life, repsonse to violence, anti individualism and exceptional artist , anti-separation between life and art , anti-beauty in art, erik satie, friends with debussy, depersonalize art, vexations, enharmonics.
