Twelve-Tone Composition

From Tonality to Atonality

Building a Twelve-Tone Series

Musical Themes in a Twelve-Tone Series

Series Forms: Original, Retrograde, Inversion, Retrograde-Inversion

Creating Vertical Patterns: Two-part, Three-part and Four-part Composition

Transposing a Series

Symetric Series

All-Interval Series

Harmony: Chords (Tonic, Dominant, Subdominant); Tonality; Cadence

Chord-Foreign Notes: Passing Notes, Alternating Notes; Anticipation; Retardation; Suspension

Tension and Resolution: Consonance and Dissonance; Tonality; Atonality; Diatonic; Chromatic

Intervals

Scales: Chromatic; Whole-Tone; Major; Minor; Minor Melodic; Gypsy or Oriental; Chinese or Pentatonic

Transposition

Demonstration of Various Terms: Polytonality; Horizontal; Vertical; Homophony; Polyphony

Retrograde Mirror Form