ATDTDA (33) - pregnancy in Bulgaria or "The Emancipation of Dissonance"

[Mark Kohut]

Robin's convinced me for at least one (major) meaning of the stopped music. 

robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:  Of course it's a dark vision, ever heard any Schoenberg?

Of course, Schoenberg/Serialism/Death Of Music was the first 
thinind. Was it Pierrot Lunaire [1912] that first 
came to mind? Note as well:

During the summer of 1910, Schoenberg wrote his 
Harmonielehre (Theory of Harmony, Schoenberg 1922), 
which to this day remains one of the most influential 
music-theory books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg

Don't forget that this thread extends into GR. I'm voting for Rossini. myself.
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: David Payne 
> 
> That's a dark vision, Robin!
> 
> So -- 1910 as the advent of modernism? 
> 
> (i.e., Henry - invention of talkies; Mark - Woolf quote about the change of 
> human nature; me - polical events; Robin - horror)
> 
> And the end of the music as the end of the old ways?
> 
> Also in 1910 -- Mexican Revolution and the creation of the US Bureau Mines 
> (i.e., another nail in the coffin of the wild west?). And Halley Comet, a change 
> of British monarchs, & Portugal becomes a republic, & Stavinsky's Firebird 
> Suite...
> 
> Robin wrote:
> 
> > 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance:
> >
> > Swollen red eyes, their cavities spreading out through the flesh as if under 
> an order not to sleep. Pupils dilated to the point where they seem to transmit 
> rather than receive perceptions, like a knowing gaze of a fish long dead. The 
> redness of these eyes marks a painful and ghastly emanation out of what seems to 
> have once been a person. This face is being reclaimed, its features giving way 
> to the miasma with which it is stricken. If there is any victory here it is only 
> one of recognition. Arnold Schoenberg: The Red Gaze of May 1910.
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/3mv4lj
> >
> > 
> http://www.amazon.com/1910-Emancipation-Dissonance-Thomas-Harrison/dp/0520200438
> >
> > http://2020ok.com/books/42/1910-the-emancipation-of-dissonance-3142.htm
> 
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