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>love Schoenberg
>love the Piano Concerto
>think atonality is a whole new musical paradigm where you slowly decode the music with repeated listenings
>think serialism is fascinating
>pitch-shift the piece a tritone up
>it sounds repulsive again, all the beauty has been sucked out of it again
>its like you've been drawing something for half an hour, you shift your head and its all lopsided
>recognize Schoenberg specifically adds enough vestiges of motive and form that you can be gaslit in this way into having a subjective coherent experience of the music
>Most other atonal composers don't even have this.

I will say this though, I love Krenek and still find Boulez intriguing. But Babbitt is antimusic, Carter is just Schoenberg without the melody and Webern is just ambient music that is needlessly complex and dissonant.

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