The whole piece is traversed by an endless melody, which is only slightly structured: There are four small caesuras in each of the two parts of the palindrome, but they hardly have a structuring funct
According to the sketch material (https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/237748), Johnston uses three different twelve-tone rows (a, b, c). He makes rearrangement
By using enharmonic alterations and by doubling the diatonic root notes, Johnston achieves a total of 60 twelve-tone rows. He designates these as P (= prime), I (= inversion), R (= retrograde) and RI
Johnston notates over 700 different pitches. If we consider this as a hypothetical scale, 500 intervals lie below the limit of two cents. The most frequently mentioned is clearly the schisma, the symb