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Hi Guys,
Today, a quick look at exploiting the thinking of serialist composer Alban Berg and his unique tone row formations.
What makes this unusual and tonal and ironically diatonic in this context is that one half contains the white notes and the other the black notes.
What you notice is that there are two “Hexatonic” scales here:
This creates an interesting harmonic shift that can be exploited easily from a compositional perspective.
Okay, let’s take a tone row from this hexatonic setup:
Now, let’s create some chords form this. I am going to employ tri-chords [three note] chords because they work well with chordal guitar picking:
Using these chords as a basis for my composition I will add open guitar strings and and a few fretted notes and re arrange the chord voicing’s, eventually, moving away from 12 tone.
Here are the chords I chose:
Lastly, a little turn around/cadence:
Now, let’s exploit another 12 tone row in this context:
This time I will employ strumming as the main guitar technique for this part of the composition.
So, as usual let’s make some tri-chords:
Finally, here we see a snippet from Berg’s “Lyric Suite”.
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