20th-century music styles {tone row} {twelve-tone technique}| {12-tone technique} {basic series} can place the twelve octave tones and half tones in sequence, with no repetition, so all twelve notes have equal representation. The same intervals separate the twelve tones. The twelve tones have no special relations, and so no dissonance, consonance, or tonality. Tone rows can be original series, its inversion, its reverse, or inversion of reverse. Whole tone row can rise or fall by any pitch amount {transposition, tone row}. Tone-row notes can change to octave higher or lower. Tone-row tones can simultaneously sound in chords or counterpoint.
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