Webern Variations

Notes Webern's "Concerto for Nine Instruments" is built entirely out of a single 3-note pattern, (prime form: 014) which is repeated hundreds of times in various rhythms, articulations, ranges, dynamics, transpositions, transformations, and instrumentations. The piece is also 12-tone: the trichord that Webern used tesselates into a 12-note row, using one of each of the four classical transformations of the trichord (original, inversion, retrograde, and retrograde-inversion). which is then orchestrated into a score: In addition to the trichord (014) that Webern used, there are 10 other trichords that have the same ability to tesselate into a 12-note set using the 4 classical transformations. For example, the trichord with prime form (025) forms a row: and is orchestrated like Webern's original into a score: This is an album of 10 alternate versions of Webern's Concerto, each using a different foundational trichord, but keeping all other aspects and relationships of the piece as identical as possible.