Anton Webern - Symphony Op. 21 (1927-28)

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  • Anton Webern (3 December 1883 - 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Along with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg and his colleague Alban Berg, Webern comprised the core among those within and more peripheral to the circle of the Second Viennese School, including Ernst Krenek and Theodor W. Adorno. As an exponent of atonality and twelve-tone technique, Webern exerted influence on contemporaries Luigi Dallapiccola, Křenek, and even Schoenberg himself. As tutor Webern guided and variously influenced Arnold Elston, Frederick Dorian (Friederich Deutsch), Fré Focke, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Philipp Herschkowitz, René Leibowitz, Humphrey Searle, Leopold Spinner, and Stefan Wolpe.
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    Symphony Op. 21 (1927-28)
    1. Ruhig schreitend (0:00)
    2. Variationen (6:03)
    Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli
    Description by Alexander Carpenter [-]
    The Symphony, Op. 21, was the first large-scale orchestral work Webern had written since the Five Pieces, Op. 10, 15 years earlier. The work marks the beginning of a period of extreme compression in Webern's music. Dedicated to his daughter Christine, the Symphony is a work of severe economy and restrained expression. Its symmetrical structure and pointillistic texture are quintessential hallmarks of Webern's mature compositional style.
    Scored for clarinet, bass clarinet, two horns, harp, first and second violins, viola, and cello, the Symphony is widely regarded as a masterpiece in miniature: Webern's teacher and mentor Arnold Schoenberg was astounded and moved by the work's concision. Like most of Webern's 12-tone works, the Symphony is based on a single series dominated by semitones. The work consists of two short movements. The first is in two parts -- statement and development -- and begins with a double canon in four parts; the second movement is a theme with seven variations and a coda, and also includes the use of canon.
    The Symphony is perhaps most remarkable for its use of symmetry, which in some quarters has stirred accusations against Webern of a certain excessive pedantry. That symmetry takes several forms, from the work's palindromic series to the canonic variations that work in both directions from the exact center of the piece outwards. The astute listener can spend a lifetime hearing an intricate web of such structural correlations within the Symphony, which is a sort of super palindrome.
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  • @tomfurgas2844
    @tomfurgas2844 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    This is the work that the NY Philharmonic performed at a concert after which John Cage and Morton Feldman met (in the lobby of the auditorium after the performance). They had both stepped out simultaneously to avoid hearing the Rachmaninoff work that was on the program after it. They met in the lobby and introduced themselves, becoming fast friends when they found they were both composers with similar interests.

    • @arielorthmann4061
      @arielorthmann4061 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      haha based music taste

    • @coreylapinas1000
      @coreylapinas1000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@arielorthmann4061 I would agree except it was Cage and Feldman

    • @arielorthmann4061
      @arielorthmann4061 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@coreylapinas1000 wdym ? These are two amazing composers, aren't they ?

    • @coreylapinas1000
      @coreylapinas1000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@arielorthmann4061 I mean that they have absolutely garbage sensibilities and it can be heard in their "music".

    • @coreylapinas1000
      @coreylapinas1000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      They are incidentally right about Rachmaninoff tho.

  • @Ah_Peppoo
    @Ah_Peppoo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The more I grow older, the more I start to appreciate Webern. He is unrightfully treated as coldhearted one, and yet he's the only one who uses the twelve tone in a heartly manner.

  • @stueystuey1962
    @stueystuey1962 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I have listened to this opus for many many years and still find it enthralling captivating etc. i dont have to know how it does what it does it just does and that's enough.

  • @postiepaul
    @postiepaul ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I love Webern. Unfortunately he doesn’t get much recognition. This is simply beautiful.

    • @kronkepus3671
      @kronkepus3671 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol, simply beautiful? my man you are one strange creature

    • @morisoba2550
      @morisoba2550 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I prefer Berg myself, but I think Webern get enough recognition by music lovers. It is no exaggeration to say that his work is the foundation of today's compositional style. The real problem is that so-called " Atonal Music " is not accepted by the general audience.

  • @udol.4612
    @udol.4612 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    so schön, wohltuend, in dieser hyper-aufgeregten Zeit einmal etwas tragendes, solides, in sich geschlossenes und daher "stimmiges" zu hören. Was der Meister sich da vor 90 Jahren getraut hat... dem kommen viele zeitgenössische Komponisten nicht mal im Ansatz nach. Aus einer kompositorischen Beschränkung solch zauberhafte und verzaubernde Musik entwickeln zu können... grosse, ganz grosse Kunst.

    • @erroll9621
      @erroll9621 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gut gesagt, d'accord!

  • @NovicebutPassionate
    @NovicebutPassionate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    "The more binding art is to itself, the richer, denser, and more unified its works, the more it tends toward affirmation [of whatever stamp] by suggesting that its own qualities are those of a world existing in itself beyond art." Aesthetic Theory, Theodor W. Adorno, Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor, University of Minnesota Press, Ninth printing, 2020, P. 160.

    • @stueystuey1962
      @stueystuey1962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Meaningless and pedantic. How about Webern is a first rank genius. We are so lucky to have had him. His works bring me joy and serenity. Ty G-d for bringing him into my life.

    • @docbailey3265
      @docbailey3265 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know what you mean.

    • @charleswish8115
      @charleswish8115 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dave Hickey.

  • @gastonarevalo1237
    @gastonarevalo1237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Such a calm and mysterious expression, with hints of tension here and there. This is music to live in.

  • @brunosipavicius7867
    @brunosipavicius7867 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    It's like hearing Klee most abstract but still lyrical works made in Bauhaus....I'm loving it.....from Brazil

  • @StephenGrew
    @StephenGrew ปีที่แล้ว +13

    So beautiful! This is the thing I'm intensely pre occupied with, the varying combinations of austerity in music, otherworldly Ness in Nature, space, oblique Ness and the vague emotional movement toward lyricism. Been working with this all my life, now in my sixties.🎹☺️

    • @danb2622
      @danb2622 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here! I first heard this piece in 1986 and marvel every time I listen to it. While it plays, nothing else exists. It occupies me very being.

    • @StephenGrew
      @StephenGrew ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danb2622 th-cam.com/video/q7GYoUMyEig/w-d-xo.html

  • @MrGer2295
    @MrGer2295 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

  • @hvvryijjzdkk2033
    @hvvryijjzdkk2033 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    6:34 Meine liebste Stelle :)
    Ich liebe das Stück insgesamt. Sehr erfrischend zwischendurch Webern zu hören und auf meinem Mozart der Jugend Schönberg zu verzichten.

  • @patrickkeenan8443
    @patrickkeenan8443 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    This joint is straight flames. It's a little known fact that after dropping Opus 21 on the clubs of Vienna, Webern started work on a Collab with Mobb Deep. A limited run of white labels was released with Webern spitting 12 tone rhymes under the pseudonym Spidah Webz. Unfortunately the mid 90s wasn't ready for retrograde rhymes.

    • @elijahstewart3231
      @elijahstewart3231 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      god i wish

    • @PianoHypnoshroom
      @PianoHypnoshroom ปีที่แล้ว +3

      back to the future be like

    • @SCRIABINIST
      @SCRIABINIST ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Fr tho me and the homies pop it to this bop on that friday night you know what I'm sayin'

    • @mintchoco5640
      @mintchoco5640 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Shit is straight gas, hella slept on

  • @isaM08
    @isaM08 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    So many feelings in one music. I am very "emotionaly influenced" by music and oh my god, wasn't this something. Loneliness, Agony, unsettlement, anxiety, fear, I almost cried in the last bit. This aching feeling in my heart, hard to breathe.
    It's a very... weird, feeling. A very interesting experience. I loved it. Music that moves your soul is the best.

  • @ronl7131
    @ronl7131 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Beautiful. Interesting sound world

  • @erroll9621
    @erroll9621 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Extremely elegant. For me, a pointillistic opium dream of shards of light piercing through pitch black darkness. The energy curves and "rhetorical traction" are masterful.

    • @joostkleppe3522
      @joostkleppe3522 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well put.

    • @darrylschultz6479
      @darrylschultz6479 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Erroll9621 Yep-you beat me to it took the words right out of my mouth that's just what I was gonna say-you read my mind mate!

    • @CHUNGAandNANOOK
      @CHUNGAandNANOOK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      fuck is rhetorical traction my guy?

    • @johnryskamp7755
      @johnryskamp7755 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, it's a dirge for Maman.

    • @erroll9621
      @erroll9621 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CHUNGAandNANOOK Rhetorical traction refers to the basic materials in a piece being used and developed throughout in a coherent and convincing manner. When people say things like "there isn't a note out of place in this piece," what they're getting at is its high degree of rhetorical traction.

  • @NoahKawaguchi
    @NoahKawaguchi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    movement 2 is at 6:02

    • @verslaflamme666
      @verslaflamme666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      u speak Japanese?

    • @NoahKawaguchi
      @NoahKawaguchi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@verslaflamme666 まだ勉強しています

    • @verslaflamme666
      @verslaflamme666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@NoahKawaguchi nice. 頑張ってね〜

  • @louchesimon
    @louchesimon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Magnifique, merci

  • @millennial8441
    @millennial8441 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Composers who work using 12-tone technique know how difficult is creating with it. You have almost to abandon ready-to-use forms, or adopt these same known forms and create a "unique" form for every piece you create. His op. 21, 22, 27, 30, and 31 are the most interesting pieces of music created by him using twelve-tone technique.

    • @karmatrinleyeshe
      @karmatrinleyeshe ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very interesting and helpful. Thank you.

    • @StephenGrew
      @StephenGrew ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Trick is, is to having something in feeling, but that is totally improvised....no notational systems!

    • @danb2622
      @danb2622 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don’t forget his Op 29, the fist Cantata. Those opening chords are sublime!

    • @karlpoppins
      @karlpoppins หลายเดือนก่อน

      "You have almost to abandon ready-to-use forms" - Berg begs to differ, I reckon. His Romantic sensibilities still came through in his compositions, and that's why he's the most palatable of the 3 greats of the 2nd Viennese School. Listening to Lulu, for instance, doesn't feel too far from listening to Salome or the Ring cycle, it clearly feels like it's part of the same musical tradition. Webern, on the other hand, was incredibly innovative and his music is otherworldly.

  • @terryclemens2867
    @terryclemens2867 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Simply wonderful.

  • @davidmfoxe
    @davidmfoxe ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sinopoli has left us so many beautiful documents such as this.

  • @johnryskamp7755
    @johnryskamp7755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Bartok quotes this piece in the Concerto for Orchestra

  • @TheJohnblyth
    @TheJohnblyth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The second movement makes much more sense in this performance than in any others I’ve heard. Lovely score. And isn’t there a quote from Sibelius 4 at m 56? If intended, or even unconscious, that would be sweet.

    • @coreylapinas1000
      @coreylapinas1000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I highly doubt it. Atonal composers considered Sibelius to literally be the worst composer ever. His influence has instead given us most of the great composers of the 21st century, Rautavaara, Saariaho and Wuorinen (who was highly influenced by Finnish culture despite being American).

  • @gerardbegni2806
    @gerardbegni2806 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    This piece is concdered by musicologists as the first one in which dodecaphonic serialism found a coherence betwwen the form and the writing. In the previous trio op; 20, Webern made use of sonata form, inherited from the tonal world. here, he uses a canonic form well in line with the serial handling.

    • @LendallPitts
      @LendallPitts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And it also happens to be my favorite symphony.

    • @talcdebebe7553
      @talcdebebe7553 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sonata form too here in the first movement

    • @gerardbegni2806
      @gerardbegni2806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@talcdebebe7553 It is in fact more complex than tht. The first movement of the trio op. 20 was a clear sonata form, but Webern felt more or lrdss consciously thet there was a kind of contradiction between the satonât for aenf the rues os serialism which tender to call for architecture of their own. So, in the first movement of op. 21,Webern actually kept some overarching ideas of the sonata form - the repetition double bar is the most obvious one. But the serail organization controls the form, which was not the case in op. 20, and will be even more evident n op.22, 24, 28. This ide of a direct contrl of the serailism on the form canot be found rither in Schoenberg"s or in Berg's works, which make use of othe rpriciples - sometimes quite complex for instance in the late Berg;

    • @gerardbegni2806
      @gerardbegni2806 ปีที่แล้ว

      @cuallito a form based upon several canons (right, inverse, retrograd, etc....

  • @exerciserelax8719
    @exerciserelax8719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I wish he lived until 1983... imagine him collaborating with Kraftwerk.

    • @timmycorbitt5870
      @timmycorbitt5870 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😾

    • @brunosalamon4755
      @brunosalamon4755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Imagine him collaborating with Tupac

    • @JoJo-yd7zf
      @JoJo-yd7zf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@brunosalamon4755 lol

    • @fabuniverse3908
      @fabuniverse3908 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah. I can imagine a programmed electronic beat a la aphex twin or perhaps a phat sampled drum loop.

    • @SnikkerDerVon
      @SnikkerDerVon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      omg that would've been so awesome :O

  • @clarinetjo
    @clarinetjo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    So beautiful, like a walk in an ethereal landscape near a small village in the german mountains !

    • @daniellu8282
      @daniellu8282 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't you smell the alpine flowers?

    • @theohornsby51
      @theohornsby51 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@daniellu8282 I certainly smell something...

    • @waldemaarrevertberg6469
      @waldemaarrevertberg6469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ...at night under the moon.

  • @MrSideways8
    @MrSideways8 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nice. Very pretty- Thx for posting. My musical tastes have obviously matured, there was a point time where I would have considered this dissonant.

  • @thanasis_milios
    @thanasis_milios 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Feels like Mahler's 9th being compressed to a nine minute piece, to its very skeleton.

    • @Hastenforthedawm
      @Hastenforthedawm ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Precisely this. Webern is like both Mahler (and later on Feldman) condensed into tiny bits of perfected Gold.
      There is an entire eternity in every single note Webern chooses, in a good way it feels ten times as long as it is.
      Webern's music takes you into another dimension that few artists achieve.

    • @danb2622
      @danb2622 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@HastenforthedawmSo true. Crystallized perfection in every gesture. It’s probably the closest musical representation of still life. Like an ideal moment trapped in amber.

  • @benjamin9901
    @benjamin9901 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Anton Webern's music feels crystalline, fragile to me. Shards and fragments appearing and disappearing again. I also think about what Thomas Pynchon wrote about him:
    This rainy morning, in the quiet, it seems that Gustav's German Dialectic has come to its end. He has just had the word, all the way from Vienna along some musicians' grapevine, that Anton Webern is dead. 'Shot in May, by the Americans. Senseless, accidental if you believe in accidents - some mess cook from North Carolina, some late draftee with a.45 he hardly knew how to use, too late for WW II, but not for Webern. The excuse for raiding the house was that Webern's brother was in the black market. Who isn't? Do you know what kind of myth that's going to make in a thousand years? The young barbarians coming in to murder the Last European, standing at the far end of what'd been going on since Bach, an expansion of music's polymorphous perversity till all notes were truly equal at last....Where was there to go after Webern?'" (440-41)

    • @meloncollector6662
      @meloncollector6662 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank you so much for this comment - I love Thomas Pynchon and Webern. I always think of this symphony while reading Gravity's Rainbow. It feels so fitting ... the absolute desolation of the Pokler episode (3:41), humorous moments like Slothrop's hot air balloon pie fight (6:34) and of course the impending rocket (7:40).

  • @davidecarlassara8525
    @davidecarlassara8525 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is sooo great

  • @stueystuey1962
    @stueystuey1962 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    One of my favorite Symphonies of all time.

  • @gerardbegni2806
    @gerardbegni2806 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The first movement is a canon per contrario motu, the second movement are variations. Both are baed on the same 12-tone row.

    • @paulamrod537
      @paulamrod537 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I am sorry this piece is totally non harmonic.

    • @salhaaljabir4469
      @salhaaljabir4469 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for the answers to my homework

  • @machida5114
    @machida5114 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    so good...

  • @jvegaalbela
    @jvegaalbela 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    what a great piece

  • @davidrehak3539
    @davidrehak3539 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Anton Webern:Szimfónia Op.21
    1. Camminando tranquillamente 00:00
    2. Variációk 06:03
    Téma: Molto tranquillo
    I.variáció: Vivace
    II.variáció: Molto vivace
    III.variáció: Di nuovo piú moderato
    IV.variáció: Estremamente silenzioso
    V.variáció: Molto vivace
    VI. variáció: Marcia moderatamente, non elien
    VII. variáció: Un poco piú ampio
    Coda
    Drezdai Állami Zenekar
    Vezényel:Giuseppe Sinopoli

    • @davidrehak3539
      @davidrehak3539 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Köszönöm az értékelést

  • @johnappleseed8369
    @johnappleseed8369 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    This piece is the perfect precursor to composers like Feldman, Cage, Stockhausen, Boulez and many more. You can hear everything from Gruppen, Marteau sans maitre to Cages number pieces and Feldman's For Phillip Guston! :)

    • @playingmusiconmars
      @playingmusiconmars 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Webern didn't influence Feldman on techniques - Feldman greatly disliked the constraints of techniques such as twelve tone and he was always very free-flowing and non-inhibiting with the way he wrote. Feldman was more inspired by Weberns orchestration and harmonies (which are one of the most overlooked parts of Weberns work), Weberns music for him reflected his personal goal of making music that has an ethereal, serene quality to it best from the three major figures of Vienna.

    • @johnappleseed8369
      @johnappleseed8369 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes, the harmonies, sonorities and they both share a certain ebb and flow of musical development. Early Feldman was heavily influenced by Webern, this kind of surrene textured Webern can certainly be found all of Feldman's chamber work :)

    • @oscarrocabert6268
      @oscarrocabert6268 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's absolutely right. Thanks a lot for your tip.

    • @WozzeckLangsam
      @WozzeckLangsam 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "It’s a famous story that John Cage and Morton Feldman met when both were walking out of a concert of the New York Philharmonic in 1950. They had just heard Webern’s Symphony, Op. 21 and neither cared to stay for the Tchaikovsky that was next on the program."

    • @paulamrod537
      @paulamrod537 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Static music does not move me. The Russian soul of Roslavets is more interesting.

  • @oliverdavies7823
    @oliverdavies7823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    TH-cam should really come up with an algorithm that doesn't plonk loud advertising right into the middle of classical music.

  • @jaconnor100
    @jaconnor100 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it’s like the stars in the sky

  • @raustaklass
    @raustaklass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    As I'm going through the complete works of Webern, and getting more used to his musical language, I'm finding a curious phenomenon of being emotionally affected by this work as I might with nondodecaphonic music- this is what Webern intended, and it's an exciting new frontier in listening I hope everyone can get a taste of.

    • @paxwallacejazz
      @paxwallacejazz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Everyone won't but a few of us do. But everyone can feel the haunting of tonality that he evokes and they fear it instead of finding solice a new world. All they can confront is their fear.

  • @daniellu8282
    @daniellu8282 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    6:34 is my favorite part with the trumpet playing a polka. I wish it lasted longer.

    • @Gwailo54
      @Gwailo54 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s the first horn, there is no trumpet in the score.

  • @emanuel_soundtrack
    @emanuel_soundtrack 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    is not one of the most radical works? what do you think

    • @andrekuratomi3880
      @andrekuratomi3880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What do you mean?
      Well, we could consider 'radical' the piece Drei Volkstexte Lieder.
      (I had the opportunitty to conduct this one some years ago. I was difficult but great!)

    • @emanuel_soundtrack
      @emanuel_soundtrack 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @koobmoon 745 i believe, but guess it is HIS most radical piece if i remember. Togheter with the II mov of the piano variations.

  • @giorgiociomei5030
    @giorgiociomei5030 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Capolavoro della storia della musica

  • @robertoalexandre4250
    @robertoalexandre4250 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    12 tone in under 10 minutes, quite an experience, but if you "Mahlerized" or "Brucknerized" the length of this "symphony", it wouldn't be so fun.

  • @joleewen6515
    @joleewen6515 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    second movement starts at 6:03

  • @nathanielouzana
    @nathanielouzana 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Not a fan of serialism (including second Viennese school), but this is nice :)

    • @letscompose8560
      @letscompose8560 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      This is serialism + pointilism, which Webern was the master. If you liked this, Alfred Schnittke would be the one to listen to next, his Concerto Grosso No. 1.

    • @nathanielouzana
      @nathanielouzana 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I already know (and love) it :)

    • @WozzeckLangsam
      @WozzeckLangsam 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      No it's not nice.

    • @auscomvic9900
      @auscomvic9900 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yes it is nice

    • @markdowding1371
      @markdowding1371 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@WozzeckLangsam Sometimes [12-tone serialism] works, sometimes it doesn't; it depends on the application and artistry of the composer

  • @mox9076
    @mox9076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I gotta back to college music theory papers.

  • @itookallthenames
    @itookallthenames ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Someone here said it sounds like the onset of schizophrenia, but I don’t hear that and neither do I

  • @benmcdonnell4167
    @benmcdonnell4167 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm 67 and I'm still struggling with 12 tone and atonal music. Any help welcome. Stravinsky, Varese, no problem, but I'm missing the wit in this. I like John Adams, if that's a clue, but I'm sure he's not 12 tone. I can remember tunes that I heard when I was a teenager and haven't heard since, and can even recall the key they are in, I have perfect pitch. Perhaps I'm "Harmony bound"?

    • @Gwailo54
      @Gwailo54 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ben, I presume you are not acquainted with late Stravinsky, in which he uses his adoption of Krenek's take on serialism.
      If you don't know music from the Septet (1952-53) onwards where he begins to adopt various contrapuntal techniques until his first full scale serial work Threni (1958). He even takes on the avant-garde in Movements (1958-59) and more so in the Huxley Orchestral Variations (1963-64).
      A lot of his later music is hit and miss, and until Threni some of it, like Agon (1953-1957) and Canticum Sacrum (1955) [the third movement 'Surge aqulio' I think is quite ravishing, despite the spare orchestration], has elements directly or indirectly serial.
      I would start with his last composition The Owl and The Pussycat (1966) then Requiem Canticles (also 1966) which I think is masterpiece. It was performed at his funeral in Venice and is thought to have been his own funeral music, but the commission for it came in handy (he always had his eye on income). Next A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer (1960-61). The CBS recording has Shirley Merrett in fine voice in the last movement.
      I'm a late Stravinsky fan, in case you didn't realise ;-)

    • @benmcdonnell4167
      @benmcdonnell4167 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you for your advice, which I intend to follow in time! I have recordings of Agon and Canticum Sacrum, and Three Songs from Shakespeare, from the CBS series.

    • @oscarrocabert6268
      @oscarrocabert6268 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What about Wozzeck by Alban Berg? It's great scene music.

    • @robertfrankgill5962
      @robertfrankgill5962 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Webern without tears: string quartet Op 28 helped me.

    • @PieInTheSky9
      @PieInTheSky9 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The idea in 12 tone writing is that each note is meant to be equally as important as any other note. It does that by ordering notes in a row, and creating permutations of that row. Each note is therefore sounded more or less as often as any other note, and the form and rhythm are what drives the piece. The effect is that it frees music of the "constraints" of harmony by assuring each note is equally valid and important. Each note has its own level of importance, and the combination of notes is simple a consequence of the structure.
      My opinion is that I can really enjoy this music for what it is - math applied to music. I also enjoy the sounds and dissonances that this music creates, and the vigorous controlled structure and rigor of it. But in the end I also think it's a cold sterile dead end which strips the humanity out of music and in that sense it's a perfect mirror of what was happening in the world when this music was being composed.

  • @docbailey3265
    @docbailey3265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lovely. Does this represent the death of formalism, or does it represent it’s logical conclusion?

  • @nicholasmackelprang8385
    @nicholasmackelprang8385 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Someone enlighten me. Since when is sonata form AABB?

    • @FilippiliF91
      @FilippiliF91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's not? No one's claiming that.

    • @goinggoinggone3394
      @goinggoinggone3394 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you talking about Sonatas and Interludes, sonata V, by John Cage?
      That's the only piece I know with AABB form

    • @likesunshineafterrain2298
      @likesunshineafterrain2298 ปีที่แล้ว

      The description at th-cam.com/video/Xq2gwuKDPnY/w-d-xo.html does say: First Movement: Sonata form, with double canon. There are two large sections that are repeated (AABB). The text in the description says it is a statement and development. Does that qualify as sonata form? Interesting question. . .

  • @evelynmolina754
    @evelynmolina754 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thema: 6:03
    Var. I: 6:21
    Var. II: 6:31
    Var. III: 6:43

  • @MrInterestingthings
    @MrInterestingthings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Now ,all dat said -one asks how do performers feel when asked to play a single note that is part of a whole and not phrases but trajectories of events . It's sad that composers and painters and painters try so little to help anyone who is in a hall where difficult not facile 20th century music is being played . If this was a movie or a horror film one might ask in order to "see " it -what is taking place . It feels like a walk laden ,no fraught with surprises and ...danger .It aint fun like Reich or Norgard or even Gubaidulina .Schnittke is fun but preWW2 Viennese music aint Schubert lieder ! I've been listening to this stuff since college and now I write it myself with lots of microtones and very tonal small glimses of phrases . Bartok is programmed a lot more than 2nd Viennese School . I dig the experience but I always know I'm missing something .A little pot could help the other thing you have to ask is when Webern is supposedly so precise , so correct and perfect what about the thousands of students who followed in the wake of Darmstadt . Maybe some of them hit upon more communicative things to do in 12tone . Rochberg's violin concerto communicates beautifully though I don't know if its serial or not and I'm saddened that he didn't have the conviction to keep at 12tone - burying a child can bring you back to basics . The European composers who migrated to America after 1938 lost family but somehow most of them kept this new game in motion and taught it at the universties -which is why music from 1940 till 1980 sounds like this .When producers realized more bucks could be made putting rock and blues behind scenes movie albums sold big . All the forces point one way to reductivity in art . Hold your boobies and wag your sticks . Invite da yahoos into dee Whitehouse for another 4 years and listen as the Earth moans !

  • @totty2524
    @totty2524 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is my jam.

  • @agustin7449
    @agustin7449 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    eso de ahí era un tritono? que alguien me confirme

    • @mariavareacastello9172
      @mariavareacastello9172 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Es una retrogradación. Saludos

    • @agustin7449
      @agustin7449 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mariavareacastello9172 どうもありがとう

  • @seined6433
    @seined6433 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Any opinions on what the piece means? I'd like to add others perspectives into my report, if you don't mind.

  • @tarottt660
    @tarottt660 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:00 Part I
    6:06 Part II

  • @evanmartinez9233
    @evanmartinez9233 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Que música tan bizarra pero muy buena composición musical

  • @-cloudsaboveuscrying-6805
    @-cloudsaboveuscrying-6805 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ordenated chaos.

    • @bartjebartmans
      @bartjebartmans  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You mean ordinate (check spelling) which would make your comment nonsense as chaos is inordinate. Hence the naming of that particular condition with the word "Chaos" or better "Kaos".

    • @kylestyyle987
      @kylestyyle987 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jordan Peterson, is that you?

  • @jinjuavrilkim3426
    @jinjuavrilkim3426 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    2nd movement 6:00

  • @yu-weihuang2926
    @yu-weihuang2926 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Var 1, 6:20
    Var 2, 6:34
    Var 3, 6:44
    Var 4, 7:10
    Var 5, 7:40
    Var 6, 7:52
    Var 7, 8:10
    Coda 8:30

  • @WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms
    @WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Based

  • @Scriabinfan593
    @Scriabinfan593 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I bet Feldman was heavily inspired by this.

    • @josef4692
      @josef4692 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's funny because there's this story - I don't know if it's true - about Feldman leaving the concert right after hearing this piece. Everyone thought he hated it because he didn't even applaud the musicians, but later he explained that he was so inspired by it that he couldn't wait any longer to write music himself.

  • @fuzip_
    @fuzip_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:02

  • @chicolofi
    @chicolofi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    And now, ladies and gentlemen, we would like to present the... end!

  • @destroydate7887
    @destroydate7887 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I really love this music. but I can't help thinking about Star Trek. The original series.

    • @LendallPitts
      @LendallPitts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have that problem in general. And it is difficult to believe that this piece was not actually written by Mr. Spock.

    • @erika6651
      @erika6651 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LendallPitts Is it that logical?

  • @EmperorMonkey35
    @EmperorMonkey35 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I quite like the music, but it gives me anxiety

    • @auscomvic9900
      @auscomvic9900 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's not meant to. It's meant to bring peace of mind.

    • @ethanhill9460
      @ethanhill9460 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Git ovah it. trump produces anxiety. This work is playful and peaceful.

    • @auscomvic9900
      @auscomvic9900 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ethanhill9460 Well said sir

    • @erika6651
      @erika6651 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ethanhill9460 I'd feel more secure if this piece was elected president. Opus 21 2020 - Make America Dodecophonic Again.

    • @segmentsAndCurves
      @segmentsAndCurves 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@erika6651 Since when was America dodecaphonic?

  • @segmentsAndCurves
    @segmentsAndCurves 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can hear melodies.

    • @kudos4201
      @kudos4201 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh no the horror

  • @TheRealQwertyMaster
    @TheRealQwertyMaster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What's this?!

  • @marioalbertobravo9149
    @marioalbertobravo9149 2 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @user-hp7xx6jq7d
    @user-hp7xx6jq7d 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:01

  • @maxgry
    @maxgry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2.satz 6:03

  • @ExxylcrothEagle
    @ExxylcrothEagle 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This music is legiterately the new nefflickz

  • @dahmyi1982
    @dahmyi1982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:00 - 6:02
    umm

  • @MrNewtonsdog
    @MrNewtonsdog 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This sounds tonal to me.

  • @swageti4339
    @swageti4339 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    eh

  • @Eva11092
    @Eva11092 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1 часть
    1 раздел 0:00
    2 раздел 2:04

  • @kennethchan1135
    @kennethchan1135 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:33

  • @tejasnair3399
    @tejasnair3399 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:04

  • @martinwest2538
    @martinwest2538 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So serialism is in fact sounding statistics? Sounds as interesting and fun as looking at bookkeeping manuscripts. I guess you have to be a certain kind of people to appreciate that. But I appreciate the effort of putting this on the tube, though, as it's a piece of music history, like it or not. The added analysis and the rows make it even better.

  • @gabriel35678
    @gabriel35678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3eme C 😐

  • @user-ys5ib2kt6d
    @user-ys5ib2kt6d 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    20c 초반 음악
    베베른 - [교향곡] op.21
    ★제 3기 [12음 기법]
    [12음 기법] : [완전한 무조성 음악]을 [성취]하기 위하여 [음렬]을 만들어 [12음을 모두 한번씩 사용]한다는 것이다.
    이렇게 해서 만들어진 (음의 나열)을 [*기본 음렬] 이라고 한다.
    기본음렬을 [1)전위] [2)역행] [3)전위역행] 시켜 [철저하기 무조적]이며 [체계화된 음악]을 만드는 작곡 기법이다.
    [베베른] : 베베른의 작품은 [매우 짧고] [밀도]있으며 [완벽한 형식]을 갖추고 있다.
    [1920년]대 중반 [이후] : 12음기법 사용
    베베른의 음악은 [음정 도약이 심하고] [음색이 자주 변화함] 에 따라 음악의 흐름이 [점들의 연속]처럼 들리는 인상 때문에
    [★ 점묘주의] 음악이라고도 불린다.
    이때 사용된 12음 기법은 [음의 길이] [음색] [셈여림]으로 [★확대] 된 것이 특징으로
    1950년대 이후 [★총렬음악에 큰 영향]을 미쳤다.

  • @LucasFacundoCordoba
    @LucasFacundoCordoba 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    acá estudiando composición sin poder cazar un fulbo :D

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ish fule de luft einus anderen planeton

  • @jazztrumpet76
    @jazztrumpet76 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This gives me anxiety

  • @fosslechillen5280
    @fosslechillen5280 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    BRASIL

  • @ferdinandde5115
    @ferdinandde5115 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a mature muscian, unsatisfied by the things……

  • @jesuscerda820
    @jesuscerda820 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hola mamá.

  • @LendallPitts
    @LendallPitts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is my favorite symphony.
    I would love it if all symphonies sounded like this. Quiet and thoughtful. When I hear the word "symphony" I think of something bombastic. This is exactly the opposite.
    Bombast in general should be avoided. (And in politics too...)

    • @augusto7681
      @augusto7681 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If every symphony was like that you wouldnt think this one is special.

  • @k.scotsparks9247
    @k.scotsparks9247 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    rich

  • @christianwouters6764
    @christianwouters6764 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The first dodecaphonics managed to create a continuity with 19th century romanticism, very obvious in this piece. Later epigonists( Boulez, Stockhausen etc.) sacrificed this to annoying and noisy excentricism.

  • @tmsphere
    @tmsphere 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Incredible romantic spirit in this Symphony, some people are just so attached to ancient structures.

  • @SSNewberry
    @SSNewberry 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Too fast.

    • @bartjebartmans
      @bartjebartmans  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not

    • @SSNewberry
      @SSNewberry 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He thought so.

    • @bartjebartmans
      @bartjebartmans  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I thought not.

    • @Rockingbart
      @Rockingbart 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@bartjebartmans I thought you thought not so

    • @suereed
      @suereed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not fast enough for me.

  • @paulfabian7274
    @paulfabian7274 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Not entirely disagreeable. That said, it still sounds like a sonic representation of the unsettling beginnings of schizophrenia. Which makes my first statement equally unsettling. 😆

    • @bartjebartmans
      @bartjebartmans  4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      OK. But your problem is that nobody knows you in contrast to Webern. Or maybe it is a good thing...lol

    • @georgeholloway3981
      @georgeholloway3981 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I don't find it at all representative of schizophrenia.

    • @plekkchand
      @plekkchand 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@georgeholloway3981 Of course, it has nothing to do with schizophrenia- that was the OP's way of trying "wit". Along the tired lines of, "my cat could play that", etc. which one tends to hear from those for whom music is forever tangential to their comprehension.

    • @emilyla6415
      @emilyla6415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@plekkchand Yes and it's offensive to us with mental disorders. "Unsettling beginnings of schizophrenia" is not a real medical concept, just a bunch of random words put together. The only time I get a comparison to mental disorders is in some of Beethoven's music. I'm pretty sure he had bipolar because many of his pieces sound like a manic episode to me, and scholars say it's very likely. Aside from that I ask people to shut the hell up xD

  • @orzanoap
    @orzanoap 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does this music strictly follow a tone row and then repeat that row using different instruments and octaves or does he break that rule? That always seemed like an arbitrary rule. Music like this could be produced with repeating pitches in different octaves not closer than 12 notes apart.

    • @bartjebartmans
      @bartjebartmans  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When it comes to Webern there are no arbitrary rules. Strict rules which need study to be understood. Not a mere glance over the score. Besides all that, the composer decides, not the listener.

    • @orzanoap
      @orzanoap 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s not an answer to my question. Did he use a strict tone row without repeating pitches in this piece?

    • @todo-bandoneon
      @todo-bandoneon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@orzanoap yes, he use a tone row, but it no works like "strictly follow a tone row and then repeat that row using different instruments and octaves". there's the original tone row, the inversion, the retrograde, the retrograde of the inversion, and the transposition of that 4 rows. in general, a tone row gives you 48 series to use. but the row that Webern used here is symmetrical and gave him 24 series to use. it's a very complex realization and a very beautiful one

  • @hanbeenlee3718
    @hanbeenlee3718 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:00 (p.506)
    2:32 (p.505)

  • @markbrooks7157
    @markbrooks7157 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Webern loved his palindromes.

  • @ExxylcrothEagle
    @ExxylcrothEagle 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ultimate make out music..... so hot!!

  • @tr7938
    @tr7938 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Serialism was a failure. Period.
    Those who would say otherwise are full of themselves, believing themselves to be an "elite"... Just look at some of these ridiculous comments.

    • @bartjebartmans
      @bartjebartmans  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      lol you are feeling better now? Talk about being "elite", you won the prize for the day. A free ride on the escalator of any Macy's of your choice.

    • @kgroveringer03
      @kgroveringer03 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude... you didn't need to say a word. Ok, you don't like it, but don't chastise those of us who do. How would you like it if we all collectively shit on you for liking certain musicians? You wouldn't like that, would you? So why do we have to put up with your unnecessary comments?

  • @bypablachobeats
    @bypablachobeats ปีที่แล้ว +4

    No me ha gustado nada...

  • @johnryskamp7755
    @johnryskamp7755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why use Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as a theme? Is that not vulgar?

  • @MrInterestingthings
    @MrInterestingthings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You have to be not thinking fully when you attack the work of serious creators and doubly stupid to attack them and those whose careers depend on them thinking and knowing whats what in any field . Yeah the moon is made of cheese and it's a conspiracy against just little you that men supposedly went to the moon and you can't believe men can fly without wings cuz you failed or didn't even take trigonometry and geometry .haha..