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Arnold Schoenberg’s music still challenges listeners, but his twelve-tone technique turns up in all sorts of unexpected places, from horror film scores to cartoons to jazz.
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Philip Clark, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2025
Notable modernists include Virginia Woolf (stream-of-consciousness novels), Pablo Picasso (cubism), Arnold Schoenberg (twelve-tone technique), and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (International Style architecture).
—Hazlitt, 10 Apr. 2024
The First Quartet precedes Schoenberg’s break from tonality; the Third is from his twelve-tone period.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
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Philip Clark, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2025
Notable modernists include Virginia Woolf (stream-of-consciousness novels), Pablo Picasso (cubism), Arnold Schoenberg (twelve-tone technique), and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (International Style architecture).
—Hazlitt, 10 Apr. 2024
The First Quartet precedes Schoenberg’s break from tonality; the Third is from his twelve-tone period.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
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“Twelve-tone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twelve-tone. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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