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

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, David.  I found this page as well through the wikipedia page on
tone rows.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:06 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> "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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