Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Schoenberg’s Klavierstücke, op. 33a.

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Keith Salley

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This essay considers the sound Arnold Schoenberg’s Klavierstucke, op. 33a, discussing aesthetic effects of combinatoriality and pitch repetition. In taking John Rahn’s general advice regarding listening to Schoenberg “late at night with the lights off,” two compelling parallels with psycholinguistic phenomena emerge—one dealing with semantic satiation, and the other with a related experience called the verbal transformation effect.

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