tags: #publish links: [[Musical Styles]] created: 2020-09-16 Wed related: [[Modernism]] --- # Twelve-tone Music A variety of [[Modernism|Modernist]] music. 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. Music without a key? Music without tonal interest or relationships? An attempt to remove the music from the music? Some sort of tradition-violating Modernist evolution, at least. **Josef Matthias Hauer** and **Arnold Schoenberg** seem to be mostly to blame.