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Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer who created new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row.
Who invented 12-tone serialism?
Arnold Schoenberg developed the influential 12-tone system of composition, a radical departure from the familiar language of major and minor keys.
Who created serialism?
Serialism is a compositional technique pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg using all 12 notes of the western scale – all within a fixed set of rules.
What is the 12-tone theory?
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.
