Serial Composition and Atonality

INHOUDSOPGAVE

I Tonality, Atonality, Dodecaphony

II “Free” Atonality

III Nondodecaphonic Serial Composition

IV Motivic Functions of the Set

  • i The set as a theme
  • ii The set as melodic prototype
  • iii Segmentation
  • iv The association of “independent” sets
  • v The incorporation of nondodecaphonic elements into the set
  • vi Function of the basic cell in twelve-tone music

V Simultaneity

  • i The verticalization of adjacencies
  • ii The verticalization of nonadjacent linear elements
  • iii The incorporation of tonal elements into the set
  • iv Invariant formations
  • v Segmentation
  • vi The simultaneous statement of different set-forms
  • vii The octave relation in twelve-tone music
  • viii The tabulation of nonequivalent pitch-class collections

VI Structural Functions of the Set