Stravinsky's 12-tone Music: Some Principles of Atonal Pitch Organization
Author:
Takaoka, Akira
Analyzes Stravinsky's 12-tone music, examines patterns of his choice of pitch materials, and tries to formulate general rules of pitch organization in his 12-tone music. Compositional constraints are formulated as a system of subjective probability, in accordance with which Stravinsky made compositional decisions. His preference ranking of pitch materials is deduced. There are some connections between time-related metaphors designating different kinds of atonal music and properties by which different ways of organizing pitches are classified. Some trichords are a determining factor in Stravinsky's choice of 12-tone series for some kinds of 12-tone music classified by time-related metaphors.
