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How to Listen to (and Enjoy!) Atonal Music, Part 1

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Curious Dissonance of Kurt Frederick

The piece was premiered in 1948 by the Albuquerque Civic Symphony. Schoenberg doesn't rely on the arrival in the tonic for his climactic moment. Under it whispers stirred in the orchestra, disjointed motifs fluttered from strings to woodwinds. The harmonies grew more cruelly dissonant.

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