Music - MYP 4 and 5 - Samuel Wright - Hodder 2020

Owl and the Pussy Cat’. How does it sound?
‘The
you set this melody to a poem of your own
Could
Add your creations to your portfolio and
choosing?
more texts using this technique.
explore
How can an
artistic intention
be viewed as
innovative?
THINKING THROUGH CHANGE
Figure 3.33 ■
the
scale (pitch material C-C#-D-D#-E-Fchromatic
F#-G-G#-A-A#-B, 0-11, and so on). This could be done
Portfolio presentation
with dice, or today a computer. Stravinsky’s row is 2-4-
12-tone technique
The
the 20th Century, composers, conductors and
In
11-1-10-8-7-9-0-3-6-5.
adding in the rst or ( ), it can also be
prime row P0
By
performers began to experiment with new ideas that
2
played backwards (called
turned upside
retrograde ),
challenged the traditional methods of how music was
expressed and presented. One method combined the
down (called
and that turned backwards
inversion )
).
retrograde inversion
(called
transformation of musical pitches into self-generating rows
of notes, called the
12-tone row
technique. Igor Stravinsky
The other rows within what is called a would
matrix
3
be lled out, giving many other possible note
used it in his rendition of Edward Leer’s nonsense poem
‘The Owl and the Pussy Cat’. In 1966, the composer scored
combinations.
it for soprano and a one-voice piano-line, doubled at the
4 A work would generally start with the prime row (see
octave. Stravinsky uses elements of
canon
and
imitation
Stravinsky’s opening line below, reading left to right):
within the work. You can listen to it on the playlist or with
Is this innovative or creative? What makes the process
a score on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/W2AJzjASkZQ
innovative? How does this make the nal product
1 To write in a 12-tone row style, the composer would
more expressive?
create a random row of pitches using the 12 tones of
EXTENSION
like Stravinsky to a poem
Writing
the website
Using
www.musictheory.net/calculators/matrix, you can
generate your own 12-tone row.
Create
one of your
own, then using the first or prime row (P0), play a
melody using Stravinsky’s
rhythmic material
from
Figure 3.34 The 12-tone row matrix used in ‘The Owl
■
the Pussy Cat’ (rst vocal line follows primary row 0)
and
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