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Re: Still Here

🔗Mark Gould <mark.gould@argonet.co.uk>

7/19/2002 2:30:52 AM

I have two small questions about the microtonal voice-leading you propose.

1. Is the length of your motivic line (segment, series, set, call it what
you will) proportional to the number of overall tones?

2. Have you composed something where wide spaced chord tones are the basis
for voice-leading, so that, for example, each note of the chord follows a
voice-leading path, using small cells, and quasi-rules of counterpoint.
(i.e. without using a longer sequence of tones)?

2, is based on the idea of voice-leading alone without using series. Could
this be possible, and have instead a group of chords which one to could
lead away from and towards. Of course this needs some kind of 'dissonance
treatment', defining some chords as consonant and others as dissonant (not
in an absolute sense, but referentially, arbitrarily, for each new work.)

I hope I have been clear.

M