Basic tenets of the 12-tone method

Question 1

row

Answer 1

a specific ordering of all twelve pitch classes

Question 2

pitch class will always be __________ in a given statement of the row

Answer 2

in order

Question 3

no pitch class is to be _________________until all other members of the row have been sounded

Answer 3

repeated (except immediate repetitions)

Question 4

octave doubling is to be ___________

Answer 4

avoided ( this prevents over-stressing of a single pitch)

Question 5

(T/F) any pitch class may appear in any octave

Answer 5

True

Question 6

form of the row: Prime

Answer 6

original series

Question 7

form of the row: Retrograde

Answer 7

the series in reverse order (right to left)

Question 8

form of the row: Inversion

Answer 8

the series in mirror form (upward intervals replaced by downward intervals, and vise versa)

Question 9

form of the row: Retrograde Inversion

Answer 9

the mirror form in reverse order

Question 10

the basic transformations of the row are called

Answer 10

row forms, set forms, or series forms

Question 11

why are accidentals used in 12 tone music?

Answer 11

accidentals apply only to the note they immediately precede. This is to avoid cluttering highly chromatic music with too many accidentals

Question 12

elision

Answer 12

the metric position where one musical idea ends and another begins - in 12tone music the ending note of one row may be the beginning note of the next row

Question 13

partitioning

Answer 13

the notes of a row are presented in one vice and freely accompanied by the remaining pitches (if pitches 1-5 are used in foreground then pitches 6-12 might be used in accompaniment)

Question 14

hauptstimme

Answer 14

leading voice

Question 15

nebenstimme

Answer 15

secondary voice

Question 16

combinatorial rows

Answer 16

the relationship between two rows that they can be combined to produce two subsidiary rows.