My Own Piece

We decided to use Serialism because it is very interesting even though it is hard to play. Serialism which is also known as the 12-note-rows gives a lot of choice of music. Compare to other techniques, this technique use more notes. There are many ways to put them and there are many notes which makes it good because it gives us cool music.

When the music is going slow in the beginning, that represent the circles. The high notes in the music represent the long straight lines. On the picture, there is a part of it that looked like a piano. We chose a keyboard to make our music. The wavy lines signify when the music goes in a very abstract way and when long and short notes are played together. We overlapped our music because the picture itself is overlapping with all kinds of shapes and lines. We used strings to edit the music because strings give an effect of a high note and if you see in the picture, the picture only shows high notes because there are very long, thin lines. Most of our music are strings. The line under the shapes of the piano signifies our last note because as the line in the picture is long , so as our last note is long.

Our own Serialism

We created our own piece by using a keyboard. Later on, we were thinking about to put them in mixcraft and edit them whether it will be a long note or a short note. We thought that we will just stick to keyboard as our instrument, but we might overlap some notes together. We will try to match it with our chosen Kandinsky's art. Tanya created the notes on Prime and Retrograde row. I created the notes on Inverse and Inverse Retrograde row. It was kind of hard to do the Inverse row, but it will be easy to do the Inverse Retrograde once you've found the notes for Inverse. I had to do a little bit of Math while doing the Inverse notes.

This is what we did so far and we played these notes on the keyboard as well.

Prime: C G A E G# B F D C# D# F A#

Retrograde: A# F D# C# D F# B G# E A G C

Inverse: C F D#G# E C# F# A# D B AC

Inverse Retrograde: G A B D A# F# C# E G# D# F C

It seems that Serialism is very hard, but at least we achieved on making notes for each row. Our next goal is to try to put them all together in mixcraft and make it sounds good. We will try to combine the piece that we created with one of the Kandinsky's art that we have chosen. Since Tanya will not be in school for this week, I will be doing all the work then.

Reflection

In week 1, we learnt about Kandinsky and Schoenberg. We also learnt about abstract music. All of us were put into groups and Miss gave us a painting to look at and music to listen. We were allowed to choose our group. Miss gave us a table and we had to describe the music and the painting. We had to say how the music that we listened relate to the painting that we saw. We had to describe using the Elements of art and Elements of music. 

Investigating Abstractions

What is a Cipher?

A cipher is another way of writing in secret. In music we used cipher differently. Cipher in music is when you use your initials and change them into notes and make music using those notes. So, you use the first letter of your name and change them to different notes. For example, my name is Nur Aqilah Binti Zamzuri. Since my initials aren't the same as the keyboard notes, I will change my initials that look the same as the notes. My initials are NABZ. N will be the H note because they look the same if you fix the middle line of H. A will be A. B will be B. Miss said Z will probably be F because when you swap one the line to the other side, it will end up as a Z. Finally my cipher is HAB and F.

What is Serialism or 12 Note Rows?

Serialism is compositional technique. This technique is used to make a melody. It consist the 12 Note Rows. There are four rows and each of the rows have 12 notes. Those 12 notes can't be repeated until you start a new row. This is the rule of using the 12 note rows. The first row is called Basic which is in order from C to B. The second row is Retrograde. It is when you put the notes that you used in Basic backward. The third row is called Inverse and the last for is called Inverse retrograde. It is quite hard to explain The Inverse row.

What is minimalism?

Miss, I totally forgot what Minimalism is. 

Abstract Composers

Miss, I don't really understand what to do about this post, Abstract Composers.