igor stravinsky abandoned traditional harmony and created the twelve-tone system for composition.
igor stravinsky abandoned traditional harmony and created the twelve-tone system for composition.
who abandoned traditional harmony and created the twelve-tone system for composition?
igor stravinsky
this piano suite was the first canadian composition to use arnold schoenberg’s 12-tone system, though in a modified form. it consists of three movements; "waltzling, dirgeling" and "themes with variables". in this piece, the tone row is treated as motivic material used with the traditional neoclassic forms, such as aba and theme and variations.









































"waltzing" exhibits another variation of this system by using a row consisting of only nine tones. this row, which seems to show a preference for minor thirds and sixths, is used as the basis of both the melody and the rhythmic ostinato that accompanies it.
john weinzweig
many register languages are tonal. however, tone is not a universal distinguishing feature among register systems and register complexes are not a component of most tonal languages. in fact, tonal languages can employ either a register tone systems or a contour tone systems. mandarin has a contour tone system, where the distinguishing feature of the tones are their shifts in pitch (their pitch shapes or contours, such as rising, falling, dipping, or peaking) rather than simply their pitch relative to each other as in a register tone system. register tone systems are found in bantu languages and throughout africa. in some register tone systems, there is a default tone, usually low in a two-tone system or mid in a three-tone system, that is more common and less salient than other tones. there are also languages that combine register and contour tones, such as the kru languages, though in such cases the register tones may be analysed as being 'level' (unvarying pitch) contour tones. furthermore, often the term 'register,' when not in the phrase 'register tone,' is used to indicate vowel phonation combined with tone in a single phonological system. burmese, khmer and possibly vietnamese are register languages. burmese is usually considered a tonal language and khmer a vowel-phonation language, but in both cases differences in relative pitch or pitch contours are correlated with vowel phonation, so that neither exists independently.
register complex