September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
After such tightly circumscribed serialization of not only the parameters of music, but of sound itself, it’s not surprising that polarities reversed and that “chance” choices of sound and silence became a temporary fashion.
Traditional melody and tonality were now completely gone, and methods for choosing notes, rests, and loudness ranged from tossing coins or dice to simply choosing at random without regard for the consequences.
Traditional notation is often forsaken. One system called the “toothbrush-splatter” method has the composer dipping ...
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