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Music 271: 4/16/07I: Schönberg’s twelve-tone composition or Serialism (c1923-1951):• Logical use of all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale• Suite für klavier: Presents prime row right at the beginning and the top line• Note = length of time• Pitch = frequency• Prelude, Menuett, and Trio• His alternate row forms favor the tritone, one semitone below the P5II: Bartók and Stravinsky: their separate points of origin in 19th century European art music:• Bartók born in 1881: Went from Germanic nationalism for Hungarian nationalism• Stravinsky born in 1882: Abandoned nationalism for neo-classicism (and dabbled in serialism)• These two would change their direction as composers, unlike SchönbergIII: Bela Bartók’s multi-faceted career and its legacy: A: Four major roles:1. Virtuosic pianist: Educated to be a concert pianist and composer;2. Ethnomusicologist: One of the first scholars to collect music of a tradition outside the realm of European art music (Hungary and Slavic Europe) (B
