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How did the number 12 revolutionise music?
Tom Service describes how Schoenberg used the Western 12-note scale to open up a new cosmos for composers and listeners to explore.
He explains the building blocks of serialism 鈥� 鈥渕usic that dances on the edge of a volcano of unleashed human emotion鈥�.
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