Schoenberg Pierrot lunaire no. 8 Nacht

[@bonemybrass36]

Between music theory and music history in college I had the pleasurable experience of studying this piece multiple times.

[@sirius-5057]

Uhhmm.. Why do like this music? Is there anything special? How do you comprehend? Thanks

[@bricebecker6093]

this made me feel very uncomfortable

[@MarkOhlsson]

So the piece was succesful...

[@Nuxunumo]

I will never forget being in college, studying for 20th Century Calssical Music, listening to and watching this video, and then after I was done I shut the books and threw on In Memory of Elizabeth Reed live at the Filmore East directly after. I was one of the strangest, but also most euphoric expereiences of my life LOL

[@MacieJay]

Thank god I'm not on any hallucinogens right now!

[@charlesmatignon1068]

@Data Null Void heh?

[@kaiwenchen5313]

For all the people criticizing this piece and say it's nonsense. it is okay to not understand music history, but not okay to criticize a masterpiece without even bothering to google it.

[@ReaperMinecraft909]

Actually, our music professor commented that this piece was absolute nonsense. Therefore it is all based on opinion, also you're wrong.

[@ClaimingCoincidoink]

The clip is nonsense, because it doesn't relate to the lyrics that much. It makes the lyrics, piece, worse

[@Symphoniics]

My music professor called it a historical masterpiece. It definitely is subjective, though.

[@iiskraachip]

I watched this in my tenth grade Appreciation class, and came to find it on here because I liked it :)

[@VavianaYoung]

This is the kind of stuff I see in my nightmares.

[@interfl0p]

Dem general education classes. That's how I got here.

[@Neonix_mp3]

Interflop music appreciation too ? 😂

[@Varese13]

In case anyone is seriously interested: it's a passacaglia. As is usual with Schoenberg, all of the structural material is clearly stated at the outset. Then the other voices enter. It is only freely atonal, not twelve tone. This is still very early on in the process, i.e. 1912, the year BEFORE Le Sacre du Printemps.

[@Schiff252]

i love this! heavy metal could not exist without this.

[@jakenbakeboise]

I have a feeling watching this on shrooms would really fuck with me. Watching this sober really fucked with me.

[@lee_for_life]

This is actually more unsettling than any horror movie I’ve ever seen

[@coloratura518]

Brilliant rendition. So ethereal, just as Schoenberg would have wished!

[@somebat4778]

100% guarantee that i get nightmares because of this, pray for me pls

[@RLBscoring]

It only seems avant guard because pop culture has done a great job of erasing the last 100 years of musical evolution from public knowledge. But if it makes you upset, than it has achieved a deep reaction, and therefore cannot be complete garbage. Thanks for posting this

[@MegaCirse]

Original & brillant ; merci de ce petit moment de bonheur :)

[@AustinGelberMusic]

Also, he's got the cello doing tremelo right next to the bridge, that's that funky buzzing sound you hear around 1:02 or so, and then the flute flutter tongues with it into big moment at 1:20, then everybody plays different inversions and variations of the first theme and the chromatic theme. Hope this helps!

[@katwatson007]

Flute is tacet in this movement! It's bass clarinet doing the flz

[@Pessoasolitario]

This is not art, this is the evolution of art,

[@oldschoolcaddilac]

I went to a performance of pierrot last year and it was amazing. I was cringing in my seat like a performance of music had never made me do before, in a good way. The mime on stage and lighting helped, but the poetry in combination with the music and sprechstimme... so creepy.

[@jkoogler12]

I didn't know sadness until I saw this video.

[@ynasss]

when somebody doesn't understand something it's better to save his opinion for himself.we are living in insane world that reflects on the artists and if that music is to complicated for you don't disgrace yourself insolting one of the genius of the century

[@drumcorpsgirl1991]

(014) (014) (014 ) (014) (014) lol. Man, the way he connected (014)'s to the black moths(butterflies) was just brilliant..... Schoenberg was truely a genius. :]

[@FoxTreatment]

I remember the first time I saw this I was with two other people, and we were exploring Schoenberg's music. We looked at this video, and started to laugh and scream at the same time when the close up of the woman appeared. It was disturbing and comedic at the same time. We made so much noise that people rushed in to see what was wrong. The sound and visuals were so bizarre and the film was so ridiculously random that we did not know how to handle it. It is kind of cool, if you think about it.

[@MoltandMigrate]

This music makes me so happy. It sounds like a dream.

[@simley_face]

Are u ok in the head 🤔

[@madameblackimusprime]

0:59 BARS I too lost track of how many times I studied this piece in music classes.

[@AirplaneSlave]

This song is the gateway to dozens of genres that exist today.

[@johnkipling1]

This is great - thank you so much!

[@AustinGelberMusic]

@innerdeth Check out the first three notes of the piece. On the third note, the first pattern finishes and the second one starts, and then it keeps going up through the ensemble. You can hear the first theme very clearly when the singer starts, it's in the clarinet. Right after the clarinet finishes, the cellos plays it, and so on. The second theme is just descending chromatic notes. The singer sings these themes in different variations, but the whole piece is based off of those two themes.

[@AnOpera4u]

Marvellous performance and the film quite good too. Creepy, like the music and poems. Especially good that this masterpiece seems to be liberated from the apprehension from academic world and now reaching a wider audience.

[@teioyoko]

WHO THOUGHT IT WAS OKAY TO MAKE THIS VIDEO

[@erucolindo87]

I believe it's from a DVD with Christine Schäfer singing and Pierre Boulez conducting. I found it on Amazon. It's really neat! I'm considering buying it. :-)

[@ApolyonTheSoulRender]

@mexicangtrplyr I'm a biology major. I never needed a music major or class to come across this. Just liking Arnold Schoenberg's music is how people come across this.

[@awnaur0no919]

gotdamn i love that line "black gigantic butterflies killed tha shining sun". aint gon lie, im hardly tha biggest fan of serialism & similar atonal music but i cant deny tha strength/potency of its vision & style & technique

[@bndgk4]

o_o in the background whenever the scene is the woman in her chair (at the beginning and the end), the tv is on a figure skating show

[@xblackdaysbegin]

my favourite piece of music in the world.

[@Deathsong17]

It's amazing how very subtle a peice of music can be.

[@ifeeltiredsleepy]

It's from a song cycle, it's kind of complicated to explain. Basically this character Pierrot, sings a bunch of songs about sex, death, love, etc. Some of the songs are about the character himself. It is not usually performed with elaborate staging, and doesn't have any really concrete plot like an opera would have. Instead it's just a bunch of connected songs sung in a row.

[@kristofori]

Testimony: I am a second year music major and atonality makes me cry at night. -fin

[@Unknown-wb4ex]

Same lmao

[@TobiBaronski]

Those gigantic black butterflies meng

[@goodridgewinners]

EXCELLENT! I love sprechtimme

[@sml5593]

Beautiful song and video ;)

[@heraldjakobs]

I'm here for music history, watching this I cannot stop thinking of Courage the Cowardly Dog right now and that's it.

[@Lineage2DEX]

A masterpiece.

[@thimacek]

I fail to see how this song could be disgusting. It's not "smooth" or "simple" or "direct", perhaps... but how, it conveys feeling and everything magnificently. Either that, or I'm seriously messed up.

[@hellsunicorn]

You're seriously messed up, trust me. I majored in Music and was subjected to half a dozen classes dealing with 20th century "Avant-garde" composers like Schoenberg and Webern, and I was never able to get into this stuff. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy dissonant music and am particularly fond of atonal-sounding death metal, but Schoenberg's music is just a disjointed mess.

[@codonauta]

People which say "that song" about composicions like that can´t be gotten seriously. They are people which like music just as entertainment - never will get that kind of musical work.

[@svn2cool]

This night is not going well, first got reminded of why I regret watching the Ring when my phone rang nobody was on the other line, tv turned on by itself (hit the button I think) and then accidentally clicked this.. Bible is nearby, phone with a priest hotline BRING IT ON WHATEVER IS COMING.

[@DPK711]

now this is called art

[@8mrsGerardWay8]

gotta love a bit of schoenberg

[@poshflowerpower]

I LOVE this!!

[@새싹이-f5l]

수행때문에 보고는 있는데 꿈에나올까 두렵다

[@김민준-f3e3z]

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅇㅈ

[@eladrex9103]

porque el trabajo de música me ha traido hasta aquí :v

[@DeathLorelei]

I love this song, and all of Schoenberg's work. . .but I'm gonna come back and watch it when the sun rises again o.o

[@hyunjuncho7475]

beeindruckend!

[@plungeplaylv3032]

who listening this

[@P1B1U1H1]

I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it.

[@roxanneroxanadanna290]

This piece inspired dread until it became clear that it portrays the way the world exists for me better than anything else.

[@chimiyou]

20th century music is frightening.

[@DANxCHORIN]

serialism was used in Schoenberg's compositions in the 1920s. this was probably from the 1910s and 1900s.

[@K9TheFirst1]

O_O! Well! I certainly didn't need sleep tonight.

[@DrMattMusic]

More than song, Schoenberg adopted the half-sung recitation from burlesque into chamber music, anticipating Gil Scott Heron by 65 years. Pierrot is a landmark of music theater, and the only strange thing is that "goths" haven't discovered it yet.

[@P1B1U1H1]

@VHalen2112 This was revolutionary. It inverted the manner of composition of music. If you study the piece, you will find almost numberless forms used. Also, it uses lietmotif in a very interesting way.

[@ldbonq]

This is so cool ong

[@MrEugeniauniflora]

Brillante!!!

[@MrJason300]

Very nice ~

[@mushroomagical]

@pterodactyleuphonium Don't really need set theory for this one. Schoenberg tightly organized the piece around a little motive that morphs in various ways.

[@amyleeluvr]

This is one of the best cycles of music ever. It is Op. 21 because there Schoenberg thought there was spiritual significance with the number 21. Also it was published in 1912 and this was because Schoenberg hated and even strongly feared the number 13 and 12 is 21 backwards. Also, the first three notes of number 8 (Nacht) are E, G, E-flat and this is significant because it is 014 and this turns up in many different pitches and instruments throughout Nacht. It is AWESOME!!

[@TheOtakuMusician]

I actually came across this in my Music Humanities class. Not a music major class. :)

[@mrdude3691]

I was expecting a gigantic Power Ranger robot to jump in at any minute and start tearing it up!!

[@lxktn1989]

@sherifkarama85 What about Stravinsky's use of atonality in the Rites of Spring, or many of the "great composers" you speak of using the Trichord and other dischords in their works?

[@deadithink]

This is generally argued to be the modern era of composition, well into atonality by now. Romantic music is generally tonal. Right now we cling to the major/minor 3rd and the half step.

[@simley_face]

Who enjoys this kind of music🤔 plz HMU and explain how this sounds nice ????

[@charlesmatignon1068]

Tell me btw

[@DonVueltaMorales]

It's hard to "let the music speak and get out of the way" when 1) the work has a Symbolist text, 2) Schoenberg (as an Expressionist painter, not as a numerologist) belonged to Der blaue Reiter School, and 3) the video presented here is neo-Romantic (Goth/Gothic). I read this as a nightmarish reaction to 9/11, not something Schoenberg, not to mention Giraud, had in mind. This is perfectly valid, given the KZbin context. BTW, there's a hyphen between "pseudo" and "intellectual." ;-) .

[@Sanguimaru]

Watched this in my music history class. Sometimes being a music major is weird. Schoenberg is still pretty cool though.

[@Frenchygirlify]

That is the weirdest and creepiest video I have ever watched and what is up with the words!? *shudders* BUT on a slight happier note. I like the music, very dramatic and a good piece showing Serialism. .......Just wish there wasn't captions and that video piece there.....

[@joe4570]

Jordan Allen yeah... this isnt a serial piece

[@stephaniekaybiz9048]

The text is symbolist poem.

[@chums1234]

@Ilkeyrion I'm also in IB music and I'm actually writing my EE on the topic of atonality and tonality using Schoenberg and his followers as en example. I would agree with you that Mozart is easier to listen to, but I also don't think we can call all art from the 20th century onwards "rubbish" as other people have posted. If no one ever innovated music, we'd still be playing super lame music. Mozart stretched the limits of the Classical Era. The twelve-tone technique may just be the next step.

[@drurylane5]

this creeped the shit out of me.

[@KlimovK]

That creeps the shit out of me! God, I won't be able to sleep now! Schoenberg is awesome, though!

[@angelachavez7061]

omg yes.

[@mexicangtrplyr]

i dont know how you would find this without being a music major

[@ellajarvis2660]

ap art history class

[@AndyFongKaHou]

I find this by typing "schoenberg creepy" LOL Its creepy but pretty damn nice creepy!

[@Nakiki18]

I immediately though of Godzilla as she was walking through the city;

[@frostzor]

@TheLiamob Oh, then i was probably confused. I must say i can't remember it quite exactly. Only that Arnold Schönberg invented this technique. And that a technique (lets call it- lookalike- tehcnique) was invented earlyer by Joseph Mathias Hauwer. But as i said, im not quite sure

[@dawnhirsh6263]

An interesting work.

[@nerfix]

brilliant!!

[@gallowswood]

fantastic!

[@tarantism]

Ive never been to college and i'm here what do you know?

[@darktowersl]

SWEET!

[@neoshain]

@iKohan HUH!? AHH! Piano Suite Op. 25 is Serialism though... you can't do a harmonic analysis. LOL. Unless you analysis and identify the various rows, which isn't that hard, as P0, R0, and P6 are really the only ones used in all six movements. (I may be forgetting some rows, it's been a long time since I've looked at it.)

[@VisceraEyes91]

Gotta love that (014) trichord

[@KaylaCollingwood]

@Jerkicus I was lumping them together because of the fact that they both tried new, weird techniques and styles of composition and were contemporaries and pioneers of very unconventional types of music, not because they composed the same music. I know the difference between serialism and aleatoric and ambient etc. music. P.S. This piece has grown on me. I'm not quite sure what to think of that.

[@Oogliscublidooby]

everytime i hear this i think of things dying in a rather painful way

[@bonemybrass36]

Ever since I first studied this piece in music history a few years ago I have been terrified. I believe if I had studied a different Schoenberg piece before this I may not hate him as much as I do lol.

[@fedezat]

masterpiece

[@MERTx123]

This is the most miserable thing I have ever heard. It's the only Schoenberg I've heard that I like! 5 stars

[@ktrq4671]

FIFA14 brought me here

[@goodninji8]

ktrq okay like...how though?

[@drumcorpsgirl1991]

@darthdidious How is this music not mathematical? Schoenberg wrote this piece using (014)'s as the main point of the butterflies blocking out the sun... Correct me if I'm wrong.. but normal order and prime form have everything to do with math. P.s. I think atonality is sexy too. hahaha :]

[@drumcorpsgirl1991]

@IndustrialPlatypus Exactly!!! :D It's easy to analyze. Just use pitch set theory. Like normal order and stuff. Really schoenberg's a genius. He continually uses (014)'s to "kill/blot" out the sun. Like litterally, if you connect all of the (014)'s, you get blocks of interlocking triangles. It's awesome. and that's just scratching the surface of his genius in this piece. lol. :]

[@falkman43]

@8plus8 I can only agree. Studying Music History as we speak. This era is no fun at all. :(

[@Jerkicus]

@chocoholicchic92 hahahaha lumping together schonberg with phillip glass. nice. real intelligent of you.

[@falkman43]

@8plus8 Then we have the same taste. I really have to struggle through my studies concerning the period of modernism. It really sucks as you put it. And more composers of this atonal ways of composing are to come. Perhaps we could share opinions from now on in our studies. Where are you from? Perhaps we could get aquinted on Facebook if you have an account there? All the best. My name is Per Falkman in Sweden.