Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Counterpoint, Tone Row, Hexachord
25 Apr 2016
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Need for something radically new after ww2. Attempt to cling on to lost pass, delusional. Serialism seemed most viable path to truly modern composition. Both communism and fascism support easy accessible tonal music. Music that people find attractive can be used as propaganda. Serialism as a retreat and comment on society. Developments in atonal + serial writing: dissonant counterpoint (crawford, combinatoriality (babbitt) Consonances have to be resolved be skip, not step. Palindrome, center m. 60: like mirror in middle, music precedes backward at that point. Two lines made up of increase and decrease number of notes. 12 tone row, which 2 hexachords (6 row) combined with another hexachord from the inverted retrograde, or inverted retrograde version without duplication of pitches. Even more systematic way to organize serial materials. Opening measures of babbitt, 3 compositions for piano. Integral serialism: subjecting elements other than pitch to serial procedures. B wrote one of the earliest integral serialist works.
