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Compromises with Serialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1961

Peter Evans
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Until a few years ago, my title could have stood without any need for further clarification: serialism, however mistrustfully it might be received in precept or example, was clearly understood to be that method of pitch relationship devised by Schoenberg. The emergence with the post-war generation of methods that treat many other musical properties as equally susceptible to a serial ordering has favoured the relegation of the earlier techniques to a class known variously as twelve-note music, or more elaborately dodecatonicism, or with dubious etymological justification dodecaphony.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association , Volume 88 , 1961 , pp. 1 - 15
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1961

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1 Karlheinz Stockhausen, ‘For the 15th of September, 1955’, Die Reihe, English edition, ii (1958/59), 38.Google Scholar

2 Luigi Dallapiccola, ‘On the Twelve-Note Road’, Music Survey, TV. i (October 1951), 318.Google Scholar

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7 From Copland's review of the Schoenberg Wind Quintet at Zurich, 1926; reprinted in Copland on Music, London, 1961, p. 180.Google Scholar

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