Twelve-Tone Composition Prepared by Vaclav Nelhybel

In the early 1960s, composer Vaclav Nelhybel recorded a series of music education albums for Scholastic Records. William Geib narrates a lecture prepared by Nelhybel demonstrating twelve-tone composition, sometimes called dodecaphony (from the Greek dodeka: twelve and phon: sound or voice), which emerged in the early 20th century as new or progressive music. This recording breaks down the complexity of the music into sixteen segments complete with music examples performed by a woodwind quartet. Detailed liner notes including musical notation illustrating different concepts accompany the recording.

Track Listing

101	From Tonality to Atonality	William Geib	06:47
102	Building a Twelve-tone Series	William Geib	04:24
103	Musical Themes in a Twelve-tone Series	William Geib	01:32
104	Series Forms: Original, Retrograde, Inversion, Retrograde- Inversion	William Geib	03:30
105	Creating Vertical Patterns: Two-part, Three-part and Four- part Composition	William Geib	05:49
106	Transposing a Series	William Geib	01:04
107	Symetric Series	William Geib	02:05
108	All-interval Series	William Geib	02:41
201	Harmony: Chords: Tonic, Dominant, Subdominant; Tonality, Cadence	William Geib	05:33
202	Chord-foreign Notes	William Geib	03:06
203	Tension and Resolution: Consonance and Dissonance; Tonality Atonality; Diatonic; Chromatic	William Geib	05:10
204	Intervals	William Geib	01:37
205	Scales: Chromatic; Whole-tone; Major; Minor; Minor Melodic; Gypsy or Oriental; Chinese or Pentatonic	William Geib	04:54
206	Transposition	William Geib	00:59
207	Demonstration of Various Terms: Polytonality; Horizontal; Vertical; Homophony; Polyphony	William Geib	04:58
208	Retrograde Mirror Form	William Geib	01:27