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The document provides guidance on analyzing a serial work including creating a matrix, analyzing trichords and hexachords, finding combinatorial pairs, and identifying row forms. It also lists additional concepts and recent music examples to analyze.

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Study Guide

The document provides guidance on analyzing a serial work including creating a matrix, analyzing trichords and hexachords, finding combinatorial pairs, and identifying row forms. It also lists additional concepts and recent music examples to analyze.

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cathy
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Guided analysis of a serial work

Create a matrix
Analyze the trichords
normal order, prime form, Tn and/or TnI relationship(s)
Analyze the hexachords
normal order, prime form, Tn and/or TnI relationship(s)
Find hexachordally combinatorial pairs
Identify row forms in the score
Analyze motives and rhythms

Two essay questions.

Three more from a list of five.

Other concepts
Partial matrix
Common tone theorem
Relationships among and between pcsets
Writing related pcsets
Form in post-tonal music
20th/21st century compositional techniques

Recent music
Babbitt
Semi Simple Variations
Hindemith
Ludus Tonalis
Passacaglia from Nobilissima Visione
Hin und Zurück
Pärt
Credo
Reich
Drumming
Pendulum Music
Fontana Mix
Shaw
Passacaglia from Partita
Thompson
Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
Varese
Ionisation

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