This twelve-note intervallic technique had its genesis in earlier works such as Symphony No. 1, and Paganini Variations. |
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It contains one of Poulenc's rare excursions into dodecaphony, with the brief employment of a twelve-note tone row. |
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A prologue and sixteen scenes are interlaced with a twelve-note theme and fifteen variations for orchestra alone. |
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What set Berg apart was his flamboyantly decisive manipulation of whatever material he seized upon, whether it was a yearning Mahlerian phrase or a murderous twelve-note chord. |
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