Music in The Rothko Room
Music and particularly Serial Music provides a key element in The Rothko Room.
Arthur Shepherd and Stuart Bracewell find themselves doing more than listening to and enjoying atonal music.  It becomes for them a matter of life and death.   I spent a good deal of time making sure that all the serial compositions made sense and since I have no experience in composing serial music, this took a while.  It's a bit anal, I suppose, but I wanted to make sure that messages could be transmitted using serial music.  Below are a couple of screenshots showing my workings on Excel as well as the theme that Arthur writes down from "Reiterations" by Noel Lear.

Below is "Limns" by Noel Lear.  Of course, it's really by me, which is why anyone with an ounce of musical ability would not be fooled for a second.  If anyone's curious, there's another piece of mine (thankfully not serial) on the Rothko Room Covers page.

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