• Serial Miniature for Piano 1 – revision

    After last week’s lesson I have made some slight revisions to the first serial miniature for piano. Pat pointed out some things about the registers that I had used and about some of the intervals being bare and ugly , so I have tried to remedy that. But, only slight revisions 🙂 Here’s the new …

  • Serial Miniature for piano 2 – revision

    I can’t decide. I’m not particularly happy with the tremolando and 3-part counterpoint sections. I have revised them slightly. I have used the twelve-tone matrix from the tone row and transposed the D# and F#  tremolando, through P0-P6. I have also used the I0 row to articulate the tremolando at the end of the tremolando …

  • Serial Miniature for Piano 2

    Serial Miniature for Piano 2 If any pianist wanted to play this piece, you will find a pdf of the music at the bottom. Let me know if you do  🙂 After writing the Serial Miniature for Piano 1 I wanted to write a series of them. After the lesson where I presented the first …

  • Serial Miniature for Piano

    I was asked to write a short serial piece as an exercise using 12-tone techniques. I decided to do a miniature for piano and wrote it in about three hours. I found the process taxing from the perspective of making sure I followed the ‘rules’ correctly. I used the tone row C-B-A#-E-G#-G-D#-F#-A-F-C#-D. I also decided …