Twelve-tone technique
Dodecafonismo
- Date
- 1921 (concebido) / 1923 (presentado) · confidence high
- Place
- Vienna, Austria
- Credited to
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Schoenberg devised a compositional method that orders the twelve tones of the chromatic scale into a fixed series, treating them as equal and dissolving traditional tonal hierarchy.
What it led to
- The Second Viennese School and 20th-century serial music
- Influence on composers such as Berg, Webern and, later, Stravinsky