Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Chromatic Scale, Serialism, Atonality
13 Oct 2016
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Our ears nationally attempt to find a tonic. Playing upside down: prime form (p) - basic form of the row. Inversion (i) - row played upside down: retrograde (r) play backward-row played backward beginning with last note and ending with first, retrograde inversion (ri) inverted form of the row"s retrograde; i. e. upside down and backwards. Serialism in the piano suite (1923: prime form (p) - basic form of the row. Prime form, opening of trio, from schoenberg"s piano suite, op 25, minuet and trio (m. 34) (p): e f g db gb eb ab d b c a bb. Transposition difference, he can much more full chords, create imitation canon. Large leaps and stepwise motion: inversion (i) Row played upside down eg. half step ascending becomes half step descending. Really convenient way to pitch material, subject to modulate number of pitches. Schoenberg on the advantages of the serial method. Brain is ready to similate much greater harmonic.
