Albums in Dodecaphony
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Early 20th century expressionist composers began experimenting with atonality and abandoned concepts of conventional tonal music where each note bears a relation to a central key. In the early 1920s, Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg developed the twelve-tone system in which all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are arranged in a fixed sequence known as a tone row where no note can repeat until all the other 11 notes have been played. The primary tone row could be inverted, played in reverse or started on any note of the scale, providing 47 additional variations. Schoenberg's system revolutionized atonal music and influenced numerous composers such as Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen and Alban Berg, who was one of Schoenberg's students in Vienna.
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