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Posted: June 03 2010 at 19:42
jampa17 wrote:
Tsevir Leirbag wrote:
I'm not quite sure if I get the meaning of dodecaphonism. I mean, I get it, but I'm not sure about how to use that. It's interesting.
I don't have a clue what that means... explain it to me Gabe please...
Well. I'll try my best.
It is a method of composition based on series of notes and/or musical elements. That's called serialism.
The more common serie is the "12 sounds technique", including the twelve notes of the chromatic scale. They succeed to each other in a precise, particular order which is called Grundgestalt ("basic serie").
Series can be used in three different ways: retrogradation (or recurrency), inversion and inversion retrogradation. With the first technique, you play from the last note to the first note. The inversion consists in reversing "intervalles" (I don't know the English word). Inversion retrogradation is when you play the reversion's notes from first to last. Each form can be played on 11 different degree of the scale. That makes a total of 48 possibilities of forms.
It's something like this.
Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira
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