Music Project ( Due 6 May 2018)

Music 100 Introduction to Music | Fall 2017 | Dr. Klaus Georg

Extra Project Instructions

All Projects MUST be turned in as pdfs in Blackboard. Email submissions and submissions not in pdf format will NOT be

accepted. If you don’t know how to create a pdf Google it. Microsoft Office, which you can get through the bookstore, does it

easily, and there are free programs available as well. The free web app Noteflight is ideal for composition projects and it will

save to pdf as well.

Project: Compose a serial piece Maximum Points: 15

Relevant Chapter(s): 29 Relevant Skills: Writing music

Instructions:

Write a very short piece in 12-tone (serial) form. Your piece must contain a valid tone row and at least two elaborations of the

tone row. Possible elaborations are inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion, combining chunks of the tone row into chords,

augmentation/diminution, etc.

You can choose the musical forces, but I recommend 3 instruments or a piano and one additional instrument. Try to vary the

rhythms and use rests, repeated notes, etc. 4 measures of music should be enough to complete the assignment—make every

note count.

In addition to your musical example, please turn in a couple of short sentences describing how you structured the piece.

Example:

Violin plays tone row. Right hand of piano plays retrograde tone row twice. Left hand of piano plays tone row split into three

four note chords, once forwards, once retrograde.