Sonic Resource Guide
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Hey,
I hope you don't mind my asking for a bit of direction, but I've been
looking all over online for a list of all possible tone rows for
further sight singing practice. I know that in terms of the 12 absolute
pitches, the number of combinations is 12-factorial (a pretty big
number), but I was thinking in terms of tone rows from a single key, in
other words, removing the redundancies of transposition, retrograde,
inversion (which I can and should be able to do in my head anyway). I
figured this would narrow things down just a little bit.
Do you have any sort of compilation like this among your books? |
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I would recommend Sonic Resource Guide: http://muse-eek.com/books/sonicresource/lower.html This will give you the 220 possible pitch class sets in prime form. Your initial step would be to work on each set and make each degree a key center. Therefore if you had the pitch class 027 you would need to sing this where C, D and G were the key centers. Obviously pitch classes with more notes would have more key centers. For instance if you had an 027 C,D,G this could also be sung over an F#7 chord because C,D and G are available tensions on that chord so there would actually be many more possible key centers to apply these prime forms. Sonic Resource Guide lists these possible key/chord superimpositions so each set could be practiced in all relevant key centers. You could use the vamps in the member's area as backing tracks for singing each of these key/chord combinations. Sonic Resource Guide would also give you all 3 and 4 note chords where applicable along with other unique set information for different groups of notes so that could also be included in your sight reading practice. As you can see this would be a very long project but would be a great education into key centers and of course enrich your understand of how various pitch class sets can be used. I would also recommend MY MUSIC: Explorations in the Application of 12 Tone Techniques to Jazz Composition and Improvisation http://muse-eek.com/books/musofba/lower.html So you can see some examples of applying various pitch class sets to modern music which is really where all this would lead you to. |
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