What are the effects of serialism (twelve-tone technique) on guitar music?
There are only a few serialist pieces, for example Richard Rodney Bennett’s “Five Impromptus” and Ernst Krenek’s works. But serialism is not common anymore and it is not used anymore. Q: How about its effect on guitar? A: Well, this technique was interesting for guitarists; for example, to learn such pieces so they can analyze them. But it is an intellectual technique, which was used by Richard Rodney Bennett in his “Five Impromptus”. He composed it very musically. It is not very soulless like other serialistic pieces. It is interesting that someone can be both serialistic and play emotionally. A guitarist should know about that era and learn what serialism is, but we have now returned to folk music and the era of serialism is over. Q: Do you mean that aleatory music, which has no melody and is atonal, has no influence on classical guitar? A: Aleatoric music greatly differs from serialism. These are techniques which guitarists should know about, but this technique has gone out of fashi
