« TWELVE TONE TUNES » composed by Australian pianist Rodric White
The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition first devised by Austrian composer Josef Matthias Hauer, who published his "law of the twelve tones" in 1919. In 1923, Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) developed his own, better-known version of 12-tone technique, which became associated with the "Second Viennese School" composers, who were the primary users of the technique in the first decades of its existence.
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 through the use of tone rows, orderings of the 12 pitch classes. All 12 notes are thus given more or less equal importance, and the music avoids being in a key. Over time, the technique increased greatly in popularity and eventually became widely influential on 20th-century composers.
Many important composers who had originally not subscribed to or actively opposed the technique, such as Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky,[clarification needed] eventually adopted it in their music. Schoenberg himself described the system as a "Method of composing with twelve tones which are related only with one another".
It is commonly considered a form of serialism. The number of possible twelve tone rows = 479,001,600.
"I've given my original miniature Twelve Tone Tunes the names of breakfast cereals in homage to serial composition. This compilation clip is dedicated to Australian musician Sean Wayland". - pianist Rodric White
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