{"id":7,"date":"2005-09-05T00:09:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T07:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-05-21T08:26:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T15:26:36","slug":"desolation-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Desolation Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read Bob Dylan&#8217;s <i>Chronicles<\/i> book the week it came out; it was impossible to put down.  Anyway, I&#8217;ve been studying 12-tone row composition lately, and happened to remember this post from Alex Ross&#8217;s excellent blog:<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therestisnoise.com\/2004\/10\/bob.html\">To the tune of a concertina<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex&#8217;s post refers to this passage from the book: &#8220;If you&#8217;re using the [diatonic] scale, and you hit 2, 5 and 7 to the phrase and then repeat it, a melody forms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I also kind of wondered what Bob meant when I read that in his book<\/p>\n<p>So, I came up with this version of a 12-tone row based on Bob&#8217;s comments and Alex&#8217;s blog post:<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/compositions\/desolationrow\/DesolationRow.htm\">Desolation Row<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that you can&#8217;t follow the pattern (as I interpret it, anyway) exactly.  Otherwise you would want to put a B as the 10th tone, but B has already been used as the 3rd tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Bob Dylan&#8217;s Chronicles book the week it came out; it was impossible to put down. Anyway, I&#8217;ve been studying 12-tone row composition lately, and happened to remember this post from Alex Ross&#8217;s excellent blog: To the tune of a concertina Alex&#8217;s post refers to this passage from the book: &#8220;If you&#8217;re using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}