12 tone jazz/fusion 20c classical quartal/quintal lines

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12 Tone Jazz/Fusion Quartal/Quintal improvising and composing concepts

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Today, a look at employing 12 tone rows for Quartal and Quintal improvising and composing.

Here is the first row: Notice the movement of 5ths and 4ths.

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Now, we will play it backwards with retrograde motion or reversal: Also, notice the use of changing register.

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Full 2 bars:

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In this next example we will employ Triadic movement and semitone connections.

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In the following part we connect triads directly:

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Finally, we will add some non 12 tone notes to complete the phrase:

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From here we will exploit the tone row and make 4 bars of music from it: Here is the 12 tone row:

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We will now copy it and change register: Notice that the last four notes descend:

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Now, that we have this we will reverse both bars and create another 2 bars of music:

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Lastly we will join together 2 different rows: We will break these up a bit with the first part acting more like a vamp:

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The second part employs quintal and quuartal movement once again:

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12 TONE CHORDS IN 4THS for jazz improvisation/composition

This concept is a quartal harmony idea using chords in 4ths to create a 12 tone line. It is presented here for guitar and piano moving in octaves.

Tetrachords in 4ths descending in major 3rds creating a 12 tone Piano example.

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Clifford Earle Martin · Piano 12 tone 4ths idea

Guitar “Tetrachords” in 4ths descending in major 3rds creating a 12 tone example.

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