Re: Chord Function?

"Steve Latham" <llatham@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> a écrit dans le message de news: 
57Lik.106$rb5.3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Well also, let's be careful here - there is serialism in
non-dodecaphonic 
> music. For example, Isorhythmic Motets are built on a fixed series of 
> pitch and melodic materials - those are from the 14th century!

What I can't understand is why do they made a general principle or 
constraint
of a trick that should be used only for some pieces.
Yes, early masters wrote isorythmic motets, it was a challenge ; they made
mensural canons, an other challenge ; Bach wrote clever canons too.
Yes, they did like that because every game needs rules, that is, 
constraints,
and structure, but... they used several such tricks, and didn't promote
just 
one
of them to a general principle of composition.
Serialism as a compositional game amongst several other ones, why not ;
that's not more stupid than a backward canon if you write good music.
But saying one morning : from this day on music will be serial seems
quite strange to me - just my opinion - and also quite diffrent from the
medevial situation you referred to - and that's not an opinion anymore,
that's a fact ;-)

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