Serialism composition

[Themadhatter800]

I love this type of music so much thank you for putting this up.

[Ch00merificTea]

Like you said, this probably isn't many people's cup of tea, but when used correctly it doesn't sound that bad. I quite like your piece. I also did music for GCSE, and I reckon I was on Edexcell too.

[TehCacti]

imagine being tied up in a poorly lit room with this music playing, and then a clown walked in holding a sea bass and a gas mask and said it's time to play HAHAHAHAHA

[MrAlexGTV]

@TehCacti You have great fantasy (Iwon'tsleepatnight)

[cait2207]

whats the piece called?

[JASONE1986]

the beginning is very dark. great.

[robdob95]

is the sound from sibelius or something similar?

[alienfingers]

This is my favourite rendition of Johnny B Goode.

[mintrack5]

Yep, and apparently the exam is going to be hard this year!!

[STJukes]

Music exam in about 24hours!!!

[mac680297]

@STJukes same bro same :/

[masterdidums1]

hmmmmm....i really dont see what the exams find interesting about this style of music? - its hard to get a bad mark for it though coz its so easy to compose and all serialistic music sounds shit anyway!

[thefuckingnut]

I'm doing a music GCSE exam in two days and this has really helped :)

[fukuufukingfuk]

the wrongness of this music is intriguing...

[FXIX]

Just like the Game Boy games boss fight lol. Good Job, I can't do such music because it's out of my harmonic sense.

[amazingdanndini]

Serialism had to be the biggest waste of time I did for GCSE music, luckily being a drummer I just did an african drumming piece with an expressionist type score using a series of scribbles to syombolise certain drum patterns and the size determined how loud they were. Good luck guys I got my A so keep up the work :)

[ilikemusic123456]

i am learing about this type of music in skl now n i think this peice if quit gd compared 2 the 1s i hav listen 2 at skl ... i was just wounderin wether it is spossed 2 be a sort of scary ... if so i think it is bril :D well done :D

[LyricalLies14]

I HAVE TO DO THIS! and i have no clue

[yngimusic]

Because it's the easiest to do once you pick your 12 note prime order? :D

[richardlessen]

Because it's relatively easy to get decent marks and I wasnt held back by musical ignorance.

[danhatechav]

@richardlessen Well said

[danhatechav]

@mikeyrose94 Its not his fault he understand music, unlike you, who "doesnt know nout" about music

[mikeyj1993]

this is really interesting. i havent considered this cause i though it would be too hard. We on WJEC board. weve gor Musical Structure, Music from Stage and Screen, Musical Evolutions, Music from Wales and Music for special occasions

[richardlessen]

@mikeyj1993

When I was doing GCSE it was under the section of Expressionism, but I think I was on the Edexcell board. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be so long as you know a small amount about serialism and how to put the same line of notes together in different ways, etc.

My music teacher was an absolute genius and he helped me a lot in terms of figuring out a structure, but yeah, if youre interested you should go for it, though Im not sure how it would fit into your sections. :/

[00Pinkbabe00]

oo sounds good do you know what you got for it? :D

[daBrewza]

I started music GCSE this year and serialisim s driving me round the bend. U done well in this piece though, its good.

[misapple24]

like a terror movie soundtrack xD

[JoshrupBasran]

im in ma last year of gcse now so hard haha

[fazz2052]

Man, I remember Serialism from last year in GCSE, that's some crazy stuff! I took Music A level by the way. Don't, it's so hard.

[13aquarela]

hallo

this sounds great but i still dont know what does serialism is? wich is the basis of this. Thank you!

[fenderbender91]

serialism is a style of music that is basically more understandable when its read rather than listened too. It uses 12 tones, so its atonal, and it is written with a few techniques (im not sure of the actual names) which involve reversing the pattern of 12 notes, inversing it, and inversing at reversing it. I know there is names for it but i cant remember. it was started in the early 20th century by schoenburg.

[13aquarela]

¡Great fenderbender! thanxs

[paolosilv]

Dodecaephonic

[fenderbender91]

? What about dodecaephonic?

[zorauthink]

hmmm noo. you are talking about the twelve tone technique, its not the same thing

[DanAndRos]

you have to use something called a note row - a grid whereby you fill in the notes of a chromatic scale in any order on the first line, and continue downward going up a semitone each time, but in any order in the rows. You have to base your piece on a melody or chords from the order of notes in any of the rows - but you are not allowed to mix up the melody/miss out any notes from the note row. Therefore your piece has to convey a mood more through use of dynamics/tempo etc. It is REALLY hard

[JoShDaViEss]

Tone Row. Actually lol :)

[DanAndRos]

I call it a note row, sorry :)

[JoShDaViEss]

Lol its ok, just in music i been told its always the Tone Row and on videos its always so that to so yeah lol, just thought i would correct you if you didn't know the proper term.

[DanAndRos]

haha yeh it's fine :) It can be both xx

[Muscl3Mus3um]

I'm doing this for A level. Not Easy

[againstas]

LOVED IT! congratulations. very serialistic

[OoohLaLaCherie]

ps: i dont usually like serialism, like many others im suree aha! but this composition is really good!

[OoohLaLaCherie]

i swear everyone has a music exam tomoro!

gooood luck to allll (Y)

serious help to me too, thanks(:

[xxalice1000xx]

Ahhh I have my music exam tomorrow aswell. I'm so nervous for it. I didn't do too well in the mock..!

[connora13]

whooooooo music exam, bring it b****s

[moone28]

very good for serialism, im revising for my exam tomorrow aswell and this helped, so thanks.

[musicman3300]

serialism is suppost to sound like shite lol but it sounds like it will get a good grade doing my music writing and listening gcse test tomorrow

[richardlessen]

Yeah, Ive got my exam tomorrow. If Im lucky I might just scrape an A.

And yeah, this piece gave me the highest mark out of all my coursework :P

[heymynameisben]

I chose to do mine on serialism.

Worst decision ever.

Although mine isnt bad its had and takes alot of time to make

[tRinaKiddo]

i hate serialism with a passion!

but this helps loads - im listening to music as revision for my music exam in a few weeks so cheers man :) x

[flaminrash]

ye me 2 this helps ALOT thx!

[CrunchChew]

It's reminiscent of early Schoenberg - the atonality has hints of Bach's later compositions and splashes of irridescent beauty that can't help but suggest the wondrous extemporality of Giotto.

Also, it sucks.