DESCRIPTION:
Line Studies represents my most advanced conception of tone row compositional procedure to date. Essentially, the twelve-tone series is imagined as a linear body of interdependent factors; a single series of tones, each of which occupies a fixed, unalterable position in the sequence.
Flexibility and variety is achieved through emphasis of tones as they follow series sequence or through spatial arrangements of the fixed series, rather than through the more traditional rearrangement of the series itself. The formal and structural elements are determined by systematic transposition of the series.
Each title reflects an essential technique used to create a particular type of line out of a single series of fixed ones. They may be basically defined as follows: (1) Projection, (the initial primitive series as a single line); (2) Extraction, (the fragmentation of the series to create more lines); (3) Displacement, (special arrangement of fixed series); (4) Density, (lines with harmonic emphasis); (5) Expansion, (the series as a simultaneous definition of the total space offered by the instruments).

Kenneth Gaburo was born in Raritan, New Jersey in 1926. He held the degree M.M. from The Eastman School of Music. Gaburo was the recipient of numerous grants and awards for his music, including the George Gershwin Memorial Award, The Sigma Alpha Iota American Music Award, The Tanglewood Orchestra Award. During 1954-5 he held a Fulbright fellowship in Italy, where he studied composition with Goffredo Petrassi. His works in the fields of opera, orchestral, chamber and solo music are frequently performed. Kenneth Gaburo died in 1993.

There is a website ostensibly devoted to Kenneth Gaburo at http://www.angelfire.com/mn/gaburo/, but lamentably this site has many pop-ups and so forth. It is also difficult to navigate. The information on Gaburo at Wikipedia is minimal.

"Line Studies" is performed here by Walter Trampler (viola), Julius Baker (flute), David Glaser (clarinet), and Erwin L. Price (trombone).