Music in the Twentieth Century

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. What is the term for a fixed, methodical sequence of the twelve chromatic pitches?

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. Which scale divides the octave into equal "steps?"

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. Which two 19th-century composers devised new, flexible approaches to tonality that better suited their musical ideas?

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. Which technique was developed by American composer Henry Cowell?

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. After the Second World War, almost all composers refocused their attention on 18th-century musical elements in a trend known as "neoclassicism."

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. Austro-Hungarian composer Arnold Schoenberg began composing without key signatures and stopped using tonal triads early in the 20th century.

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. One of many new ideas that found practice in the years around the turn of the 20th century was polytonality, performing simultaneously unrelated harmonies from different keys.

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