Serialism

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

Objectives

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

Resources

• Hutchinson, Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
  • Chapter 34: Serialism

• Open Music Theory
  • Twelve-Tone Theory: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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