On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:29 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > John Lyon wrote: > > >Where did you learn about composing using the 12-tone row? > > > > > Various books and scores, atonal ear-training, listening to a lot of > freely and not-so-freely chromatic music. > > >From the book by Schonberg? (sp?) From another source? > > > > > I started with Reginald Smith-Brindle's Serial Composition. Later I > studied useful texts by Charles Wuorinen, George Perle, Pierre Boulez, > many others. I'm also a big fan of Elliott Carter and Stefan Wolpe, > their music and their theoretical writings. i might also humbly add "Music of The Whole Earth" which will provide you with a very big picture view of scales, intervals and tone selection against which the various forms used in the west over the last 600 years become merely a handful of possibilities amidst a sea of beauty. not a help with 12 tone specifically, but it helped me see where it fits into the ocean of the possible. --p
