Serie - Serie (English spelling) French

Japanese: セリー - せりー(英語表記)série フランス語
Serie - Serie (English spelling) French

A musical term. It refers to the twelve-tone sequence (Zwölftonreihe, German, série dodécaphonique, French), which was established as the basic form of twelve-tone music or twelve-tone technique. It is a sequence of 12 tones, which divide an octave into 12 equal parts, arranged without omission or duplication in order to treat each tone equally, and no tone is used again until all 11 tones have appeared. The sequence thus created regulates the order of the tones and plays a role similar to that of a theme in traditional tonal music, as it appears repeatedly throughout the piece. However, each tone can be of any octave. In addition, various transformations of the original tone sequence are made to avoid the monotony that occurs when the same tone sequence is repeated. Transformations include transposition, which moves the original tone to a different pitch, anti-transition, which moves the tones up and down in exactly the opposite order, anti-transition, which reverses the order of the original tone sequence, and anti-transition, which combines the latter two.

When twelve-tone music was first established, series only applied to pitch, but the concept was gradually expanded to include chords, rhythm, and even tone color and dynamics, leading to musique seriale.

[Toshiaki Kurosaka]

[References] | Twelve-tone music | Music series
The original form of series and its variations
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The original form of series and its variations


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Japanese:

音楽用語。十二音音楽または十二音技法による楽曲の基礎形態として設定された12音音列Zwölftonreihe(ドイツ語)、série dodécaphonique(フランス語)をさす。それは、一オクターブを12等分した12種類の音を平等に扱うため、省略、重複することなく配列した音列で、そこではどの一つの音も他の11の音すべてが現れるまでけっしてふたたび用いられることはない。したがって、こうしてつくられる音列は、音の連なる順序を規制し、また楽曲を通して何度も繰り返し現れるため、伝統的な調性音楽における主題に類似した役割を担っている。ただし、各音はどのオクターブのものを用いてもよい。また、同じ音列の繰り返しから生じる単調さを避けるために原音列のさまざまな変形がなされる。変形法には原形をそっくり別の高さに移す移置、音程の上行と下行とを正確に逆に進ませる反行形、原形の配列を逆の順序にする逆行形、後二者を組み合わせた反行逆行形などがある。

 なお、十二音音楽が成立した当初、セリーは音高に関してだけ適用されていたが、しだいにその観念が和音やリズム、さらには音色や強弱法にまで広げられ、ミュージック・セリエルへと導かれていった。

[黒坂俊昭]

[参照項目] | 十二音音楽 | ミュージック・セリエル
セリーの原形とその変形
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セリーの原形とその変形


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