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  • Serial composition — rows, retrograde, inversion conceptSerial (twelve-tone) technique orders the 12 semitones into a row and forbids repeating any note "until he has passed through all the other notes of his 'row'"; it evolved in the 20th century "as the final stage of …
  • TW #46 — Serial Composition (shawnm / NOISE) summaryA short introduction to twelve-tone technique plus a 1994 music-history essay on Anton Webern, offered to the scene as "just another compositional technique to take into account". The author is shawnm , the Shawn of …