Arnold Schoenberg didn’t faze Opie
So you think that 20th-century classical music — or, more accurately, concert music — is not for you? Too knotty, noisy, and generally off-putting? Michael Monroe, an assistant professor of music at Gordon College, points out that you’ve probably heard more of it than you think — but on movie and TV soundtracks rather than the concert hall.
At MMusing, he’s posted a clip of a piece by Anton Webern, a rather forbidding character in the 20th-century pantheon, together with a clip of incidental music from … “The Andy Griffith Show,” which was never known to have avant-garde aspirations. As one commenter puts it, the parallels are unheimlich, or uncanny …