The 12 Tone Row
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Twelve-tone technique is
a method of musical composition devised by
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The technique is a means of
ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded
as often as one another in a piece of music while preventing
the emphasis of any one note[3] through the use of tone rows ,
an ordering of the 12 pitches.
The 12 pitches are:
C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B
Tone Row:
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Chromatic Scale:
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All 12 notes are thus given
more or less equal importance, and the music avoids being in
a key. The technique was influential on composers in the mid-
- Other composers in the 20th century who used the 12 tone system to compose are:
Alban Berg:
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Anton Webern:
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Milton Babbitt:
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Igor Stravinsky:
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