Twelve-tone Technique - Schoenberg's Mature Practice

Schoenberg's Mature Practice

Ten features of Schoenberg's mature twelve-tone practice are characteristic, interdependent, and interactive:

  1. Hexachordal inversional combinatoriality
  2. Aggregates
  3. Linear set presentation
  4. Partitioning
  5. Isomorphic partitioning
  6. Invariants
  7. Hexachordal levels
  8. Harmony, "consistent with and derived from the properties of the referential set"
  9. Metre, established through "pitch-relational characteristics"
  10. Multidimensional set presentations.

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