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It is worth noting that Wassily Kandinsky reached out to Schönberg because he saw parallels in Schönberg's music to his own abstract art. But I think this paral
by spacechild1 7y ago
It is worth noting that Wassily Kandinsky reached out to Schönberg because he saw parallels in Schönberg's music to his own abstract art. But I think this parallel only exists in terms of breaking with the conventions and traditions of the medium, i.e. mimesis in visual arts and tonality in (Western) music. One could argue that music is always "abstract" in the sense that there is no real model in nature which it can abstract from. After all, music is always artificial.
- p1esk 7y agomusic is always "abstract" To me, the difference between the atonal or serial music and traditional classical music is in the amount of structure or order (that I can recognize and process). Bach's or Chopin's music has a lot more of it than Schönberg's. Also, classical music feels "natural", and is pleasant to listen to (for the most part), while atonal music feels "artificial" or "weird", and for the most part is not pleasant.