Harmony Research On Babbitt's String Quartet No.3

American composer Milton Babbitt is an important representative of romantic music,the sequence at the same time,he is also a mathematician,logical mathematical thinking mode,so tight,in his creation stage,not only inherited the six Schoenberg segmentation technology,also use their own unique talent in mathematics,this will do further segmentation the regular and irregular segmentation development,in addition,he not only arrange the sequence form from pitch,rhythm and intensity from the design parameters are arranged to form a whole series of creative techniques,with its unique style of music.The research object of this paper is Babbitt's String Quartet NO.3,this series was written in 1970,this period is the music of Babbitt second times,the writing style main features of segmentation technology in the development of sequence,and change the order of some notes that the internal sound level,so as to increase the diversity of music sequence segmentation,the twelve tone more combinations also increases the variability of interest,sound effect.At the same time,he mastered the skilled six Schoenberg collection of supporting writing technology,and in practice proved this point.In addition,the author from the chord material and horizontal lines and harmony Study on the relation of the discovery of Babbitt for sequence between vertically formed chords and horizontal melody motivation characteristics,second degree and tritone are the main factors.By choosing the logic sequence,explore the sequence of the overall layout and the relationship between potential tonality and sequence,the author find the selection logic the sequence,and found the distribution trend of sequence tension on the whole.Although the music in Babbitt's aesthetics of music aesthetics belongs to the category of the concept of autonomy,but Babbitt's music is not entirely out of emotional factors,it also reflects the use of Babbitt in this work the whole tone of the three and second degree,formed by Babbitt in the incomplete cast under the premise in emotion,pure the beauty of music attention,logical beauty and form beauty creation thought and aesthetic ideas worth learning and reference.