Twelve-Tone and Serial Composition: The First 100 Years

A series of pedagogically-oriented analytical videos on twelve-tone and serial compositions. Each video will focus on one short musical passage, showing how the music was made and how it might be pleasurably heard and understood.

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Videos arranged by the composition date:

Crawford, Diaphonic Suite No. 1 (1931)

Webern, "Wie bin ich froh!" from Three Songs, Op. 25, No. 1 (1934)

Schoenberg, String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37: iii (1936)

Babbitt, " The Widow's Lament in Springtime" (1951)

Stravinsky, "Full Fadom Five" (1953)

Dallapiccola, "Die Sonne kommt!" (1953)

Finney, Fantasy for Solo Violin (1958)

Lutosławski, Funeral Music (1958)

Lutyens, Two Bagatelles, Op. 48, No. 1 (1962)

Stravinsky, Fanfare for a New Theatre (1964)

Stravinsky, Requiem Canticles "Lacrimosa" (1966)

Copland, Inscape (1967)