Serial Style - Composing for the Piano

The video tutorial explores the use of the Music Matters theme in various styles, focusing on serialism, a technique developed by Schoenberg. It explains how to create a tone row, a sequence of the 12 semitones, and use it in compositions through original, retrograde, inversion, and retrograde inversion forms. The tutorial demonstrates composing a piece using these techniques, highlighting the transition from tonal to atonal music. It concludes with a demonstration of the composed piece, showcasing the organized yet dissonant nature of serialism.

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