Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music,net.music.classical Subject: Another request for info: computer-generated tone rows Message-ID: <974@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 17:18:30 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.974 Posted: Mon Aug 13 17:18:30 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 02:13:36 EDT References: <973@pyuxn.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 25 Keywords: computer music, tone rows, intervals A composer I know is looking for some information on tone rows generated by computer. Specifically he is looking for means of generating tone rows through a program, such that the tone rows produced would contain every possible interval. In other words (if I understand him correctly) he is looking for computer generated tone rows that contain all possible intervals (from minor second to major seventh [obviously not including the octave]) between adjacent notes in the tone row. In analyzing this requirement, it seems that it is a difficult proposition to attempt to create such a tone row without tripping over yourself by repeating a note. The big pitfall is using successive intervallic relationships that wind up totalling exactly an octave (e.g., minor second, fourth, tritone). Does anyone have either examples of tone rows like those I describe or a means of generating them through a program? Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer. (P.S. We expect that the resulting rows would be "symmetrical", but I'm not exactly sure what I mean by "symmetrical", or if indeed they would be symmetrical in *any* sense of the word.) -- "So, it was all a dream!" --Mr. Pither "No, dear, this is the dream; you're still in the cell." --his mother Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr