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A Modernized Twelve-Tone Composition

Friday, November 7, 2014
Plaza Foyer (Sheraton)
Christie Gribschaw , Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
This is a presentation of an original musical composition, a duet between saxophone and piano, written in the twentieth-century twelve-tone style. The piece is presented visually and recorded to be heard through headphones.  A review of composing in this style is accompanied by an explanation of a musical matrix.