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Do you like atonal music ?  

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  1. 1. Do you like atonal music ?

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Haven't heard any that I like. I like the intellectual side of music - but just that doesn't do it for me. But, I'm not that familiar, since I don't seek out music that I have never enjoyed.

I like a bit of chromatisism, though, to spice things up. A bit. To spice. Not to overpower.

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by the way, wozzeck is one of the best atonal operas

Strange about Berg. Wozzeck has a great deal of tonality about it to the extent that the prelude to the last act is often called the great D minor prelude - of course, it isn't in D minor but it has that tonal centre.

He was the one of that trio (i.e. with Schoenberg and Webern) who managed to twist serialism into something approaching a kind of surreal tonality...sort of, if you see what I mean. :huh: Lulu is FULL of beautiful lyrical lines. The Lulu theme and her hymn (one of the few bits of the last act he finished) are gorgeous in their bittersweet way.

I've found Henze's later vocal works (like Das Floss der Medusa) in a similar vein though I don't think his operatic stuff is on a par with Berg's musical dramas. I find them more intensely dramatic and cynical than anything else of the genre.

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