The Philosophy Of Music Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy
The single most necessary moment in defining the course of music all through the century was the widespread break with traditional tonality, effected in numerous methods by different composers in the first decade of the century. From this sprang an unprecedented “linguistic plurality” of kinds, techniques, and expression. In Vienna, Arnold Schoenberg developed atonality, out of the expressionism that arose within the early a half of the twentieth century. He later developed the twelve-tone technique which was developed further by his disciples Alban Berg and Anton Webern; later composers developed it additional still. Stravinsky explored twelve-tone technique, too, as did …