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Thanks so much for your comments. I'm working on cleaning up the score and a bunch of other things. In case anyone is interested, I've been editting the piece with the comments in this thread in mind and this is what I have so far: http://www.henrysolberg.com/kojo_no_tsuki.pdf . No updated realization yet. I think you're right to say that serial might not be the best term to be using. The way I understand it, serial is a broad term for anything that uses ordered series and rearranges them (this can be pitch, rhythm, dynamics, etc.). So serial is pretty broad and as you say "ordered set treatment" would be more accurate.

Just in case this isn't something on my end, I should mention that I would look at this but I am getting a message that I don't have a font and most of the piece is not being displayed?

Thanks so much for your comments. I'm guessing you're not confusing serial with 12-tone but just in case there is that confusion, this piece is not 12-tone at all (except coincidentally). The most common serialized pitch group is [0, 1, 3, 8] although I serialize (as in, order and use the inversions, retrogrades, etc. of) many different parts of the melody or, of course, the melody as a whole. Verrry good suggestion on spacing of my ideas. That is something I am working on although it is not the easiest thing for me to accomplish. The folk melody that it is based on is from Japan and I know it from my participation in the Suzuki method as a kid. :)

Ok, here's a rough realization in mp3 format: kojo no tsuki

How embarrasing for me to have misspelled col legno! I will try to create some acceptable audio (but it's never easy on finale. Perhaps I will do a realization in Cubase.) Edit: I did just now do some small amount of score cleanup.

A primarily serial treatment of the tune "Kojo no tsuki" or Moon Over the Ruined Castle. All pitch material is derived from the folk song. Kojo no tsuki My normal channels of feedback are currently out of commission and I'm brave so I thought I'd turn to the internet and see what happened. :) I CANNOT SAY how much I would LOVE any feedback anyone could offer on this most recent composition of mine. Edit: I think I missed my chance to upload the score as a PDF so you can just download it off my website here if you want to see it as a PDF instead of a .mus: Kojo no tsuki Edit2: As mentioned below, here's a rough realization in mp3 format: kojo no tsuki