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- Compose a 12-tone row which could form the basis for a full-length serial
composition.
Try to use serial principles associated with Schoenberg, Berg,
Webern, Babbitt or Boulez to construct your aggregate (see Fig. 1).
Typed (1-2 pages):
- Note important structural features of the row.
- Which of the 48 row forms would you employ above the others and why?
- What compositional techniques, associated specifically with the serialists,
might you employ and why?
- What instrumentation and form might a full-length composition based on your row take?
Fig. 1: Compositional techniques associated with a variety of composers. Specific works are in parentheses.
| Composer | Compositional Technique (Work) |
| Schoenberg | lyrical melody vs. accompaniment (String Quartet No. 4), hexachordal combinatoriality (Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31), sonata form (Piano Piece, op. 33a) |
| Berg | tonal reference (Violin Concerto), use of 2 distinct prime rows (Lyric Suite) |
| Webern | palindromic symmetry (Symphony, Op. 21), fixed registration & registral symmetry about a single pitch (Variations for Piano, Op. 27; Symphony, Op. 21), row form overlap (String Quartet, Op. 28), serial use of articulation or dynamics (Variations for Piano, Op. 27), binary form (Variations for Piano, Op. 27), color canon (Symphony, Op. 21) |
| Babbitt | serialized control of dynamics, rhythm and pitch (Three Compositions for Piano) |
| Boulez | integral serialism (Structures) |
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