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Friday
Mar052010

Examples of Serial Techniques Applied to Rhythm

My score examples of rhythmic approaches to serialism, given in class, used an example of duration-serialism from Pierre Boulez, and an example of beat-class set serialism from Milton Babbitt. A partial example of simple beat-class (or time-point) serialism was given on the board, and it’s fairly self-explanatory. But I thought y’all would like another one, just for reference.

Here are my takes on the two main serial techniques for rhythm, with brief explanations included.

In addition, your keyboard-improvisation assignment for next week makes use of the (less-common) beat-class set serialism method, along with a method of pitch-serialization devised by yours truly. :)

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