Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ruth Crawford Seeger, Serialism, Counterpoint
13 Oct 2016
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Developments in atonal and serial writing today will consider: dissonant counterpoint (crawford) Its another way to organize: combinatoriality (babbitt, integral/total serialism (babbitt) simply use atonality, offer 12 tone method. Takes the rules of counterpoint and it reverse them- rule: old dissonance to consonance chord, consonance have to resolve dissonance, everything is reverse what have to reserve what. Another rule: a dissonance resolve consonance by skip. Like all of her pieces, features additional experimental" techniques: This mvnt. an exact palindrome: centre m. 60. Two lines made up of increasing and decreasing numbers of notes. Employs process of rotation on lower parts. Ruth crawford seeger, string quartet 1931: 4th movement. Combine 2 different material another line which is getting shorter and other line is just one note and conversation each line, low inst very short line and violin has long line, a process of rotation.
