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 in 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.

In a more ambitious follow-up post, he syncs some Webern to a scene from the same show. "I think anyone who's seen the show very often will concur that this fits right in," Monroe writes.

Via The Rest is Noise