Modern Harmony - Lesson 8a: Serialism (part 2)

[dpkapp]

Thank you, so much clearer than the text we're using in class...:)

[ezetosan]

Loved the lesson! I like how you give us ideas to make more coherent music with the serial techniques, I have to try this

[danb]

Thank you for this great lesson, Alan! I certainly appreciate the tips as well as your point about the serial method constraining you to use a note other than what you're ear might prefer. That's the delicious part of the challenge of serialism for me, though. I'm always eager to find some way to use that "inconvenient" tone in a most creative way that makes it sound like what my ear was hoping for all along, but didn't know it! Easier said than done. One thing I find precious little discussed in 12-tone literature is the various techniques of selecting which row form might follow next. Should I follow P-0 with I-5, or with R-9, or RI-11, or with P-4? I've tried to develop various systematic ways to solve this, but I think in the end an arbitrary choice might be just as good as one determined by some mathematical system. Thoughts? Thanks again for all your work. I've pre-ordered your book and can't wait for it to come!

[OzJazrok]

In ex 8c, i don't understand how you arrived at the first LH chord (Eb, G, A) Those notes don't appear in succession in the row and there's no major 3rd interval in the row at all.

[still]

Hi, may I know how you created the last chord of Ex. 1a? (3:30) EFA BbAb...? How come the notes can skip so much?

[luigicapola]

tel me if I understand how chords are built.
One choose any number of notes from the series, any one as long as they are from the series & and one put them in any order to built the chord.
am I right ?
tku so much for your answer