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A Radical Dodecaphony!

from Live on Tape (2004) by Matthew Embry

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Schoenberg smiles on us today
and we’re gonna say
tone rows coming out our assholes
...a-o.k.!

the neo-classical school
have been made a fool
they never opened their ears
see their surprise
as they clear their eyes
and find the source of their tears
is a more diversified system
than previously acknowledged!

Webern is down as our friend
here’s the message
that he’s bound to send
further develop the nascent trend
squelch the voices that can only rend
a more diversified system
than previously acknowledged!

but on a cold, lonely night
twelve-tone raindrops
fell on Berg’s head...
a solution of style, known all the while
this new idea, this new idea!
reorganize for tonality’s guise at least,
its just not fair
that any man would dare
to spoil this sumptuous musical feast...

the neo-classical school
have been made a fool
they never opened their ears
see their surprise
as they clear their eyes
and find the source of their tears
is a more diversified system
than previously acknowledged!

Babbitt...Boulez...Stockhausen...
Riegger...Rochberg...Schuller...
Wuorinen...Zimmerman...Messiaen...
Schoenberg smiles on us today
and we’re gonna say
tone-rows coming out our assholes
...a-o.k.!

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from Live on Tape (2004), released April 1, 2004
recorded at the Woods (Aptos)
produced/mastered by Mark Plummer

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