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1	Blotterkrossed Trimble, Ethan James 01 May 2018 (has links) Blotterkrossed is a twelve-minute work for wind ensemble which elaborates on a compositional system known as the Circle of 12 Tones, originally developed by Ron Jarzombek and used to compose music performed by death metal supergroup Blotted Science. Jarzombek’s system presents an intuitive method of selecting pitch-class segments from twelve-tone aggregates. These individual segments are articulated until the aggregate structure is completed. At that point, a new permutation of the aggregate is initiated. This method is compositionally attractive as it is somewhat open-ended and unordered, but the absence of deeper pitch relations projects a certain lack of musical coherence. In order to add a deeper level of structural integrity to this system, a method is utilized which structurally relates multiple forms of the initial row, in effect creating four distinct subsets of the ordered aggregate collection, each one related by transposition and/or inversion. The result is a palate of hundreds of pseudo-serialized aggregate permutations. In Blotterkrossed, each one of these aggregate “row forms” is used as the basis of respectively independent sections of the piece. The sonority of each row form evokes distinct character changes to better aurally convey the transformation from one row form to the next. 12-tone Blotted Science Ron Jarzombek
2	NON-NUTRITIVE SERIAL VARNISH Willhoit, Thomas O'Brien 01 May 2023 (has links) (PDF) Non-Nutritive Serial Varnish is a song written and arranged for big band which explores several stylistic and compositional techniques developed during the 20th century. Serial techniques are used as the structural underpinning during melodic presentation. Eventually these serial structures work their way to the surface to reveal themselves as source material. The salient aesthetic, overarching form and harmony are derived from conventional jazz. The use of semi-improvised melodic modules is also employed. 12-Tone Big Band Jazz Serialism
3	Life Cycle: A Musical Composition in Four Movements Owen, Trefan 01 August 2014 (has links) Life Cycle is a modern musical composition written for chamber orchestra. Life Cycle is scored for flute, clarinet, electric guitar, viola, cello, glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba and drum kit. This composition is composed in four movements, each representing a different phase of the composer's musical life-journey. Life Cycle infuses elements and techniques from the Classical idiom with jazz, pop and rock idioms. 12-Tone Row Music Composition Music Theory Score Serialism
4	Adorno on Music and Politics Mariasin, Dalia January 2020 (has links) This study aims to discern and assess Theodor Adorno’s theories on music as an ‘art’ and how it impacts both the political and social landscape of society; more broadly, the purposes of this paper is to identify, and determine the significance of, the relationship between music and politics – that is, whether or not, and how, music can emancipate society from capitalist enslavement. In juxtaposing Adorno’s theories, the opinions of Herbert Marcuse will be discussed as well. As both theorists are considered integral to the creation and development of critical theory of the Frankfurt School, it is only logical to examine their theories and ideologies in detail to determine the role of music as an ‘art’ in the overarching scheme of political scaffolding within which society resides. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) Adorno Marcuse art music culture industry modernity Mahler capitalism Schoenberg jazz music emancipation false consciousness bourgeoisie class mass deception false needs 'dark' art mass enslavement class conflict 'autonomous' art pop music swing bands 12-tone scale 'extremes' 'high' art 'low' art modernism mass consciousness propaganda conformity anti-conformity culture liberation commercialization commodification 'commodity fetish' fetish of music technique tonality atonality 'art for art's sake' critical reflection status quo

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