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twelve-tone music

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twelve-tone music: see serial music serial music, the body of compositions whose fundamental syntactical reference is a particular ordering (called series or row) of the twelve pitch classes—C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B—that constitute the equal-tempered scale.
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Twelve-tone music may be foreign and harsh to our students when first heard, but can be fun and challenging when the student becomes the composer.
The insane homophobia of the mid-20th century seems more relevant to the "oddly hypermasculine" "something" about twelve-tone music than does anything intrinsic to that aesthetic.
Whereas tonal music is hierarchical, twelve-tone music is egalitarian: all the tones in the twelve-tone row must be given equal emphasis, "thus depriving one single tone of the privilege of supremacy.
 
 
 
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