Serialism: Difference between revisions

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==Resources==
==Resources==


==== Readings ====
====Readings====


*[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html Hutchinson, ''Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom:'']
*[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html Hutchinson, ''Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom:'']
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*[http://openmusictheory.com/ Shaffer, Wharton (eds.), ''Open Music Theory:'']
*[http://openmusictheory.com/ Shaffer, Wharton (eds.), ''Open Music Theory:'']
**Twelve-Tone Theory: [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneBasics.html 1], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneOperations.html 2], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneIntervallicStructure.html 3], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneMusicDerivation.html 4], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneMusicInvariance.html 5], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneMusicInvariance.html 6]
**Twelve-Tone Theory: [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneBasics.html 1], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneOperations.html 2], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneIntervallicStructure.html 3], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneMusicDerivation.html 4], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneMusicInvariance.html 5], [http://openmusictheory.com/twelveToneMusicInvariance.html 6]
*[http://academic.udayton.edu/PhillipMagnuson/soundpatterns/microcosms/serialism.html Magnuson, ''Sound Patterns:'' Serialism]


==Class Activities==
==Class Activities==

Revision as of 20:36, 30 July 2020

This lesson is part of the Style & Compositional Techniques category.

Objectives

  • Students will explore the compositional techniques of serialism and stochasticism.

Resources

Readings

Class Activities

  • Further discussion of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone row process and discussion of integral serialism
  • Improvisation within a integrally serial structure
  • Composition of a piece according to stochastic techniques

Assignments

  • Analysis of integral serialism in written and recorded music
  • Creation of a short musical composition using a stochastic method

Notes