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Posted by caleb Robert Morris "Not Lilacs" uses Mallalieu series. Alban Berg in Lulu and Lyric Suite uses the "every other note"-type permutation technique. Elliott Carter uses all-interval series. Schoenberg uses a multiple-order-function series in but not in many other series. If you're interested, I'd be happy to analyze this as a MOF. Tom Johnson's music is all about self-similarity. But not 12-tone self-similarity. However, some of the underlying math is the same. Incidentally, all the logarithmic self-similarity I've been talking about can be applied to temperaments other than 12--17-tone to the octave, or 19-tone, etc. As well as non-tempered situations. And it can be applied to situations in the usual 12-tone tuning, where all twelve tones *don't* come up. In other words, music that is not concerned with the "aggregate". Lots of obscure composers who are not at the top of the food chain (like me) write pieces relating to self-similarity. Fractals have been in vogue for a while, of course. For me, self-similarity relates very much to the idea of stating a theme over and over in all kinds of variations. But the variations are already embedded in the theme to begin with. So it's all about saying the same thing over and over at different levels.
on 10/19/2006, 1:42 pm, in reply to "Re: 2 more little 12-tone riffs"
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Good question.
Op. 26--Wind Quintet
C E F# G# Bb A G B C# D# F D
4 2 2 2 11 10 4 2 2 2 9 10
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