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twelve-tone of, relating to, or denoting the type of serial music invented and developed by Arnold Schoenberg, which uses as musical material a tone row formed by the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale, together with its inverted and retrograde versions. The technique has been applied in various ways by different composers and usually results in music in which there are few, if any, tonal centres How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Incidentally, it's kind of interesting because it shows that a twelve-tone technique is not as radical a revolution as you might think. The Partita, written for Paul Badura-Skoda, is Takacs's only work written using a strict twelve-tone technique. |
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