Humm…..

Apparently, things happen when I don’t constantly post to my blog.

Nothing big, except for moving to Boise. You know, the little things.

Luckily, this really hasn’t impeded my writing too much – I’ve churned out two arrangements, a guitar/cello duet, started transcribing a song and finished up the Polar Express medley since moving about a month ago. Not too shabby.

Granted, have some time at my new job (and bosses that don’t mind that I write when I have free time) to work on music is quite cool, and I’m looking forward to getting even more stuff done.

I’m currently looking for musical things to do in the Boise area (and if they paid, that would be quite a bonus!)… there’s a choir that I’m going to look into, among other things.

 

Now Playing: “Hotel California” – The Eagles - Hotel California

Twelve-Tone Matrix

Just started a Twelve-Tone piece for Flute and Harp last week.

What I’m working from:

I0

I5

I8

I3

I2

I7

I11

I9

I10

I1

I4

I6

P0

D

G

A#

F

E

A

C#

B

C

D#

F#

G#

R6

P7

A

D

F

C

B

E

G#

F#

G

A#

C#

D#

R1

P4

F#

B

D

A

G#

C#

F

D#

E

G

A#

C

R10

P9

B

E

G

D

C#

F#

A#

G#

A

C

D#

F

R3

P10

C

F

G#

D#

D

G

B

A

A#

C#

E

F#

R4

P5

G

C

D#

A#

A

D

F#

E

F

G#

B

C#

R11

P1

D#

G#

B

F#

F

A#

D

C

C#

E

G

A

R7

P3

F

A#

C#

G#

G

C

E

D

D#

F#

A

B

R9

P2

E

A

C

G

F#

B

D#

C#

D

F

G#

A#

R8

P11

C#

F#

A

E

D#

G#

C

A#

B

D

F

G

R5

P8

A#

D#

F#

C#

C

F

A

G

G#

B

D

E

R2

P6

G#

C#

E

B

A#

D#

G

F

F#

A

C

D

R0

RI6

RI11

RI2

RI9

RI8

RI1

RI5

RI3

RI4

RI7

RI10

RI0

For those that don’t know:

P = Prime

I = Inversion

R = Retrograde

RI = Retrograde-Inversion

Twelve-tone matrixes are nice, because they take one challenging aspect of composing out, which is picking the notes, but getting all the variations of the prime row to work together without sounding too different/unrelated is quite a challenge.