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Originally Posted by demonic_advent
P.D.Q. Bach is a god among men, and my personal homeboy in every sense of the word.
However, if I had to pick a composer proper, it'd be Schoenberg. 12 tone theory is just a bad idea for one all-important reason...
While it might be true that music and math are intertwined, with 12 tone theory, you start losing the music, and getting too much math.
Also, he is trying to be delibriatly as random as possible!!! How is that supposed to be musically appealing in any way?
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Schoenberg was just the start of a splurge of musical activity through serialism that did incur maths and statistics that ended up too often as undifferentiated sound across a span of time, unless very careful consideration was given to how the root material would pan out to determine the structure. Some composers achieved limited success but
mostly it has fallen into disuse these days.
Some critics of the 50s/60s declared that Schoenberg "missed the trick" by only considering a pitch row, where Webern began to consider time and other parameters of "the note".
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