<div><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"The Row" is the opposite of tonality. Atonality, 12 tone progression, is the Row.</span></font><br></div><div><br></div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique</a><div><br></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">Twelve-tone technique</b>—also known as <b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">dodecaphony</b>, <b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">twelve-tone serialism</b>, and (in British usage) <b style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">twelve-note composition</b>—is a method of musical <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_composition" title="Musical composition" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">composition</a> devised by Austrian composer <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg" title="Arnold Schoenberg" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">Arnold Schoenberg</a> (1874–1951). The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_scale" title="Chromatic scale" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">chromatic scale</a> are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any one note<sup id="cite_ref-Perle_1977.2C_2_3-0" class="reference" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;background-image:none"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique#cite_note-Perle_1977.2C_2-3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">[</span>3<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">]</span></a></sup> through the use of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_row" title="Tone row" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">tone rows</a>, orderings of the 12 <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_class" title="Pitch class" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">pitch classes</a>. All 12 notes are thus given more or less equal importance, and the music avoids being in a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(music)" title="Key (music)" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">key</a>. The technique was influential on composers in the mid-20th century.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Schoenberg himself described the system as a "Method of composing with twelve tones which are related only with one another".<sup id="cite_ref-Schoenberg_1975.2C_218_4-0" class="reference" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;background-image:none"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique#cite_note-Schoenberg_1975.2C_218-4" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">[</span>4<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">]</span></a></sup> It is commonly considered a form of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism" title="Serialism" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none">serialism</a>.</span></font></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique</a><br><br>On Wednesday, August 26, 2015, Mike Jing <<a href="mailto:gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com">gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>V621.30-37  “You’re caught in tonality,†screams Gustav. “Trapped. Tonality is a game. All of them are. You re too old. You’ll never move beyond the game, to the Row. The Row is enlightenment.â€<br>      “The Row is a game too.†Säure sits grinning with an ivory spoon, shoveling incredible piles of cocaine into his nose, going through his whole repertoire: arm straight out swinging in in a giant curve zoom precisely to the nostril he’s aiming at, then flicking in the lot from two feet away without losing a crystal . . .<br><br></div>What is "the Row"?<br></div>
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