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A tone row is based on a _______ scale.

A. majorB. minorC. chromaticD.pentatonic

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What kind of scale is tone row based on?

Tone rows are not based on scales, they are a series of tones in a particular order. The most classic tone row is a 12 tone row. In western music there are only 12 possible tones, then they repeat themselves. A 12 tone row puts all possible tones in a particular order that the composer develops. The row is then plugged into a matrix which transposes the row in several ways, reverses it and retrogrades it. The resulting matrix gives the only possibilities that notes can be ordered in that particular piece of music. It is like a mathematical/musical game. This is why 12 tone music sounds so dissonant and harsh to most listeners. Even professional musicians who are not trained and skilled in 12 tone structures can find it difficult to follow the different patterns as they progress in the piece, and frankly many don't see the point of trying to do so. The original idea was to free music from all constraints of having a tonal 'center' (having the sound of being written in a specific key) or of being bound by any of the standard rules of harmony. That's why you really can't say that tone rows are based on a 'key'; that's part of what is deliberately avoided. However, you could say informally that tone rows come from a dodecaphonic (12 sounds) or chromatic scale (all the keys on a piano played in order, from any starting point). You wouldn't refer to a scale by letter-name.


What does 'hexachordal' mean?

In music, a hexachord is a collection of six pitch classes including six-note segments of a scale or tone row.


What is petatonic scale?

Pentatonic scale in Greek means five tone scale.


What kind of music uses a tone row?

Classical and Arabic music.tone-row______________The scale used for tone rows is called the dodecaphonic or chromatic scale. "Do deca" is two and ten, meaning that the scale is made up of all twelve tones in the standard western musics. Arabic music makes use of notes that are outside of the dodecaphonic scale. Tone rows are commonly used in the composition of what is called atonal music. Actually, it is not atonal, but dodecatonal. Atonal music is harmonically atonal, since there is no relationship to a tonic, or key in the music.


What is the order of tones and semitones in a minor scale?

Tone, semitone, tone, tone, semitone, tone + semitone, semitone.

Related Questions

A tone row is based on what kind of scale?

A tone row is based in a Chromatic Scale


Which tone row can appear in the twelve-tone composition?

The tone row is a predetermined sequence of all twelve notes of the chromatic scale.


Which of the following is not a form that a tone row can appear in a twelve-tone composition?

augmentation


How can you manipulate a tone row?

A tone row can be manipulated by transposing it to different pitch levels, inverting the intervals within the row, or retrograding the order of the pitches. By applying these techniques, composers can create variations and develop new material based on the original tone row.


What kind of scale is schoenberg's 12-tone composition based on?

CHROMATIC


What kind of scale is tone row based on?

Tone rows are not based on scales, they are a series of tones in a particular order. The most classic tone row is a 12 tone row. In western music there are only 12 possible tones, then they repeat themselves. A 12 tone row puts all possible tones in a particular order that the composer develops. The row is then plugged into a matrix which transposes the row in several ways, reverses it and retrogrades it. The resulting matrix gives the only possibilities that notes can be ordered in that particular piece of music. It is like a mathematical/musical game. This is why 12 tone music sounds so dissonant and harsh to most listeners. Even professional musicians who are not trained and skilled in 12 tone structures can find it difficult to follow the different patterns as they progress in the piece, and frankly many don't see the point of trying to do so. The original idea was to free music from all constraints of having a tonal 'center' (having the sound of being written in a specific key) or of being bound by any of the standard rules of harmony. That's why you really can't say that tone rows are based on a 'key'; that's part of what is deliberately avoided. However, you could say informally that tone rows come from a dodecaphonic (12 sounds) or chromatic scale (all the keys on a piano played in order, from any starting point). You wouldn't refer to a scale by letter-name.


What does 'hexachordal' mean?

In music, a hexachord is a collection of six pitch classes including six-note segments of a scale or tone row.


What are tones of the scale separated by?

The tones within a scale are divided by either tones or semitones. In a major scale, the order always goes: tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone. For a minor scale, in natural form, the order always goes: tone, semitone, tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone.


What are the steps in a major scale?

tone, tone, semitone, tone tone, tone, semitone


Which arrangement makes of the major C scale?

tone tone semitone tone tone tone semitone


Which of the following is NOT a form that a tone row can appear in a twelvetone composition?

Tone rows can appear in retrograde, inversion, retrograde inversion forms in a twelve-tone composition. The "diatonic" form is not a valid form for a tone row in twelve-tone composition.


What is the leading tone in a f major scale?

The leading tone is the seventh scale degree of the diatonic scale which in F Major is the note "E".