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>have you checked out webern's
string quartet music?
i'm not too familiar with
webern.
i know most of these guys only from studying music
theory in college.
i kind of got it backwards, studying it first, then
listening.
i come from the rock and roll side of
things.
this led to some interesting clashes with "jazzers"
and "classical" types.
totally agree.
i think that it is easier to
study it than to hear it, if you know what i
mean... > i believe that bartok also had a
tonality system, though i don't know much about it and it seems like too
much for my little brain love bartok.
listen to the string quartets regularly.
i think his system is somewhat geometric as
well.
a very bartokian sonority is to
superimpose major and
minor triads with the same tonic in a
way that results in a vertically (pitch)
symetrical shape (ex. E3 G3 C4 Eb4:
minor third, perfect fourth, minor third).
very cool...
he also used hungarian folk melodies as source
material to manipulate in sonically new
ways.
so he was quite the "remixer," too.
i'd love to hear what he would have
done with modern electronics.
i have a friend who has looped
bartok...
(there, i snuck looping
in!)
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