Welcome to Between the Barlines! It’s MUSIC THEORY FRIDAY! This is the first one we’ve had in a while, but I really wanted to talk about the topic we have on the docket today more in-depth. This topic is dodecaphony or the 12-tone technique. Our basic definition for this is a compositional system where all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are treated equally.

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Link to analysis of Dallapiccola piece: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HFhyGzp2qQ1QlbaFuZNxneACAZpLnADa/view?usp=share_link

Music mentioned/played in this episode:

Luigi Dallapiccola - "Contrapunctus secundus” no. 5 from Quaderno musicale di Annalibera

Schoenberg - Sechs kleine Stücke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE7RvUn1Sas