Feature: Billy Conte
To get a full understanding of Billy Conte’s article, “Understanding
the Reception of Schoenberg’s Music from a Neuroscientist’s
Perspective”, take a moment out of your day and search on YouTube
for “Arnold Schoenberg”, the Austrian-born classical music
composer whose early work was denounced by the Nazis as “degenerate” and
who himself became a pioneering music theorist. From the list of offerings
related to Schoenberg, select “Piano Concerto op. 42 (excerpt).” Play
the video: if you are not already familiar with Schoenberg’s composition,
you will soon get an idea of what it’s all about. In one word, you
could describe it as discordant. If you felt more strongly about Schoenberg’s
creations, you would probably call them “unpleasant.”
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