Basically, any critic of atonal music said that (who wasn't a communist himself).
Stefan Wolpe didn't help matters much.
Today, most criticism looks like this:
http://www.credenda.org/issues/13-3musica.php
From some Fundie Christian site I found after googling "Schoenberg."
Thought out? No.
Sorry, I have to vent:
From the same online magazine (Volume 15, Issue 4: Musica):
"It is called The Dorian Service because the music is set in the Dorian mode which is the white note scale from D to D (
good so far...). Thus the scale has its half steps between the
third and fourth degrees of the scale and the
sixth and seventh degrees of the scale."
WRONG! THAT'S THE MIXOLYDIAN MODE!
"It sounds like a minor scale with a flat seventh
instead of a leading tone seventh which approaches the tonic by a half step."
A MINOR SCALE ALWAYS HAS A b7 UNLESS YOU RAISE THE 6TH AND/OR 7TH DEGREES (WHICH IS THE EXCEPTION)! THAT'S BASIC, YO! Anyway, we're talking about Church Polyphony here...the raised 6 and 7 scale degrees don't really start popping up until the major/minor system comes to power.
"Its sister mode, the Hypodorian,
which is the same scale but
using more low notes (!), was considered by Tallis as majestic."
WRONG! IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MODE (what we now call the AEOLIAN MODE)!
Morons! They think they can sit in some hopelessly remote ivory tower and criticize Wagner and Schoenberg? They can't even grasp undergraduate-level music theory. SIT IN THE IDIOT CORNER!!! DO NOT PASS GO!!! DO NOT COLLECT $200!!!
DUNCE!!!!!
The
italics are mine, yo!
Okay, I feel better now.
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