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List of dodecaphonic and serial compositions. This is an incomplete list of musical pieces composed in the twelve-tone technique and pieces that use serialism.
The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition.
[1] In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements. Serialism began primarily with Arnold Schoenberg 's twelve-tone technique, though some of his contemporaries were also working to establish serialism as a form of post-tonal thinking.
His 8 symphonies (see e.g. the article on Symphony No.1 (Op.33, 1958)) either use the twelve-tone technique, or serial techniques with other kinds of rows, or both [5] Lou Harrison Rapunzel (1952)
The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition. 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 ...
Developing a Dodecaphonic Row. The central concept behind dodecaphony is the notion that all of the music should arise from a single compositional element: the 12-tone row. A tone row (or series), as prescribed by Schönberg, must contain each of the twelve chromatic pitches (called a pitch class) once and only once.
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The twelve-tone technique (otherwise known as dodecaphony) is a method of composition invented by Arnold Schoenberg. The method involves ordering all twelve tones of the chromatic scale in a non-repetitive order (known as tone rows) so that no tone sounds more than any other and emphasis on any one note is avoided.
