Re: Chord Function?

tkorth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>True, but the even distribution does assure the avoidance of any sort of 
>pitch center or centers, except perhaps in a few rather special,
musically 
>questionable cases.  I  just don't see the necessity of a series to
provide 
>an organizing force, especially since we can't really hear it in most 
>instances.

That's what I meant to say. Even if a row insures the even distribution 
of all twelve pitches, the ear can only perceive some aggregates and 
movements without necessarily perceiving patterns lasting through the 
entire row. In short, I don't think one can actually hear a complete 
dodecaphonic structure; at best, one can recognize motivic retrogrades 
or inversions and perhaps latch on to certain intervalic patterns. But, 
as you say, all that could be achieved without strict dodecaphonic 
procedures, which brings me back to my initial observation that there's 
little sonic difference between twelve tone atonal music and atonal 
music using chance operations or any other organizational principle.

Orlando