. the 'problem' of 12-tone music is
quoted 3 lines that takes a scale thats not particularly in tune to begin with> that takes a scale thats not particularly in tune to begin with
> (equal temperament) and generates a thicket of sound that baffles the
> ears.
ive never heard of 12 tone being non equally tempered
heres my idea of 12 tone music not that anyone on this list gives a hoot
about my ideas:
"an atonal style of music in which theres a systematic avoidance of a tonal
center"
here are certain procedures in shoenbbergs ideas before he developed 12 tone
compositions:
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1.avoidance of the 8ve, either as melodic component or harmonic interval
2. avoidance of traditional pitch collections, that is, any that might
suggest
major or minor triads, and hence a tonic
3. avoidance of more than three succesive pitches that might be identified
with
the same diatonic scale
4. use of wide-ranging and extremely disjunct melodies
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the principles mentioned above continued to hold true in much of shoenberg's
12 tone music
his system was designed to methodically equalize all pitches of the
dodecaphonic scale by the following means:
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1. A twelve tone composistion is to be based on arrangement or series of the
12 pitches that is detemined by the composer. This arrangement is the tone
row or set
2. No pitch may be repeated until all other pitches have been sounded. There
is one exception to this restriction: a pitch may be repreated immediately
after it is heard. Repitition may also occur within the context of a trill
or tremolo figure.
3. The tone row may, within the confines of the system, legitimately be used
in retrograde (reversed order), inversion (mirroring of each interval), or
retrograde inversion (reverse order of the mirrored form).
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-this being said i can see how a composer may choose 12 tones that are un
equally tempered as well as 12 tones equally tempered that have
unconvetional intervals example of the latter the 1st 12 tones of a 21 tet
scale which would sound out of tune
could please inform me of some 12 tone songs that do not use equally
tempered scales
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