Twelve-tone technique and the lack of harmonies

[mosc]

Congrats, Steve. You got 100.

[MusicMan11712]

Some footnotes:

When I found and posted the 12-ton rows, I had the vague impression that I had actually scored a piece based on these rows. Well, Sunday, I found the score and parts to "Gobzt" (including what I now seem to recall were probably teacher and classmate comments from the discussion afterwards--limited range, comments about dynamics, etc.).

A few days before finding the score, I had entered the basic rows in SONAR and started playing with them--re-doing them by repeating the rhythm of the first 6 notes of I and II -- ||: quarter note, two eighths, three triplet notes : || -- using all four rows. (Recently I have been appreciating the motivic compositions of Kevin Kissenger and thought I'd try something motivic using the 1-2-3 pattern.)

On top of this pattern I toyed with layering improvised slow-moving, lingering sounds following one of the rows with some success. This morning I searched my PC for Gobzt and found I had created a midi file of it around 1994-95. Its short--it runs a little under 2 minutes.

I am not sure if I can turn all this into a musically worthwhile 21st century ambient piece, but I just may give it a try. As for the question of harmony in 12-tone music, measure 11 of Gobzt consists of A C# and E across three of the parts. The rest is all over the place!

--Steve

PS: Thanks for noticing the 100, Howard!

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[Acoustic Interloper]

Rules are simply patterns, often patterns that one can tailor.

Nice work on your pattern!

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[Hoskins-kin]

There are a few recordings at the Jacksonville University library of some of his experiments

14-tone equal temperment
14-ton work: seventh chords/scales
14-tone work: scales cont'd

I think I might have some of his written notes on this as well.

[110]

my schönberg sequencer module (custom software) does exactly that.

without even bothering about the question whether it can be legit to change the original concept i intuitively gave it 4 different inputs - and depending on which input you trigger it, it will output 1, 2, 3 or 4 notes at once.