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Originally Posted by marsbars
I'm a little hazy on a few things:
Should I create my tone row with the harmonic implications in mind?
Let's say I decide to make a string quartet, does 12-tone forbid doubling a note in two or more voices?
What dictates the use of inversion and retrogrades, does it just cycle through all of them consecutively or am I free to choose when and where this changes?
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Well, try to get a sound out of it that you like while still following the rows and working with the rhythm. The inversion/retrograding, etc etc, is all personal choice, you can as well not use any inversions or retrogrades at all and do only rows with different rhythms, pauses, and so on. There's a lot of possibilities, see what works for you.
If you do a string quartet, each voice has it's own row/inversion/whatever, you CAN double (two instruments that start from 0 will hit have the same notes, but you can vary that too in rhythm, etc etc.) If you do double-notes on strings (if it's a string quartet) the second note must also be from the row.