2007-01-06 07:12:40 · 2 answers · asked by Next evolutionary step... 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The serialists of the second vienese school extrapolated from Wagner's increased use of chromaticism and deduced that music was going to get so chromatic that keys would no longer have a place in modern music. They therefore treated all 12 notes with equal priority, instead of giving them preference in different keys (for instance C and G are very important in C major, so you will hear a lot of them, but very few F#s) and would compose using a note row - where all 12 tones were present and given equal status, then given a sequence which had to be completed before you could move on in the composition.
2007-01-06 07:29:13 · answer #1 · answered by Mordent 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_tone_music
2007-01-06 15:21:24 · answer #2 · answered by Sean T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋