Klarinet Archive - Posting 000897.txt from 2000/07

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Serialist
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 05:11:27 -0400

Well, yes, but only partly so. Serial music is largely atonal
except when the composer intends otherwise as Berg frequently did.
Serialism or 12-tone technique was the method explored by
Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, etc. etc., and all twelve tones (notes)
of the chromatic scale must be employed in its original (O) inverted (I),
reversed (R), and reversed and inverted (RI) forms of the thematic cell
(called the row) before any one of them is used again (consecutive
repeated notes are allowed). George Perle (1915-?) was the
leading American theorist of the method.
Not to be confused with Surrealism.
MB

On 26 July 2000 06:55 William Wright asked:
My music dictionary doesn't have a definition for 'serialist.' I
have a vague understanding that 'serialist' means 'not tonal', as in
music that doesn't have a 'home' tone to which it returns. Is this the
full meaning, or is there more?

Thanks,
Bill

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