MUSI 4133 X2 Structural Analysis 2
Topic 3: Integral Serialism [Total Organization] (Angela Brenton)
Composers and Works
Early tendencies can be seen in the music of:
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Alban Berg (1885-1935)
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Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
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Anton Webern (1883-1945)
Oliver Messiaen (b. 1908) began to treat the individual attributes of musical sound as separable components.
- Quatour pour la fin du temps (1940)
- Turangalîla-symphonie (1948)
[In 1948, he began experimenting with more rigorous structural methods]
- Cantéyodjayâ (1949)
- Quatre Études de rythme (1949)
- Livre d'orgue (1951)
Pierre Boulez (b. 1925)
- Piano Sonata No.1 (1946)
- Piano Sonata No.2 (1948)
- Livre pour quatour (1949)
[At this point, Boulez's music began shifting towards total serialism:]
- Polyphony X (1951)
- Structures I (1952) [this was a milestone in the evolution of integral serialism]
Karlheinz Stockhausen (b. 1928)
- Kruezpiel (1951)
- Kontra-Punkte (1953)
- Piano Pieces I-V (1953)
Milton Babbitt (b. 1916)
- Three Compositions for Piano (1947)
- Composition for Four Instruments (1948)
- Composition for Twelve Instruments (1948)
- String Quartet No.2 (1954)
- String Quartet No.3 (1970)
- Arie da capo (1974)
- Paraphrases (1979)
- Canonical Form (1983)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- Threni (1958)
- Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1960)
- The Flood (1962)
- Variations for orchestra (1964)
- A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer (1961)
- Abraham and Isaac (1963)
- Requiem Canticles (1965)
Other composers of intergral serialism include, Karel Goeyvaerts (b. 1923), Luciano Berio (b. 1925), Luigi Nono (b. 1924), Ernst Krenek (b. 1900), George Rochberg (b. 1918), Henri Pousseur (b. 1929), and Bruno Maderna (1920-1973).
Last updated: 2 February 1999.