Schoenberg's Mature Practice
Ten features of Schoenberg's mature twelve-tone practice are characteristic, interdependent, and interactive:
- Hexachordal inversional combinatoriality
- Aggregates
- Linear set presentation
- Partitioning
- Isomorphic partitioning
- Invariants
- Hexachordal levels
- Harmony, "consistent with and derived from the properties of the referential set"
- Metre, established through "pitch-relational characteristics"
- Multidimensional set presentations.
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