All Schönberg's Expressionist (free atonal) vocal works are for chicks -

- and all his 12 tone vocal works are for dudes.

Expressionist,1908-1916: the finale of the 2nd string quartet, The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Erwartung,, "Herzgewächse," Pierrot lunaire, the four orchestral songs (Op. 22)

12 tone, 1917-1951: Die Jakobsleiter (which I'm here counting as "proto-12 tone" because I can), the sonnet from the serenade (Op. 24), Moses und Aron, "Ode To Napoleon Bonaparte," "A Survivor from Warsaw"

The only exceptions are Die glückliche Hand - the guy-point-of-view companion piece to the girl-point-of-view Erwartung, which perhaps significantly gave Expressionist-period Arnie three years' worth of writer's block - and Von heute auf morgen - and that's only half an exception, because it has a guy lead and a girl lead, so they cancel each other out.

I don't know what this means, but I'm pretty sure it means something. I guess female superiority is the obvious conclusion.


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