Re: GR translation: You’ll never move beyond the game, to the Row

[David Morris]

"The Row" is the opposite of tonality.  Atonality, 12 tone progression, is
the Row.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique

*Twelve-tone technique*—also known as *dodecaphony*, *twelve-tone serialism*,
and (in British usage) *twelve-note composition*—is a method of musical
composition <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_composition> devised
by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg> (1874–1951). The
technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_scale> are sounded as often as
one another in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any one
note[3]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique#cite_note-Perle_1977.2C_2-3>
through
the use of tone rows <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_row>, orderings
of the 12 pitch classes <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_class>. All
12 notes are thus given more or less equal importance, and the music avoids
being in a key <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(music)>. The technique
was influential on composers in the mid-20th century.

Schoenberg himself described the system as a "Method of composing with
twelve tones which are related only with one another".[4]
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique#cite_note-Schoenberg_1975.2C_218-4>
It
is commonly considered a form of serialism
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism>.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique

On Wednesday, August 26, 2015, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V621.30-37   “You’re caught in tonality,” screams Gustav. “Trapped.
> Tonality is a game. All of them are. You re too old. You’ll never move
> beyond the game, to the Row. The Row is enlightenment.”
>        “The Row is a game too.” Säure sits grinning with an ivory spoon,
> shoveling incredible piles of cocaine into his nose, going through his
> whole repertoire: arm straight out swinging in in a giant curve zoom
> precisely to the nostril he’s aiming at, then flicking in the lot from two
> feet away without losing a crystal . . .
>
> What is "the Row"?
>
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