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Term for music not in a particular key?
atonal
What does atonal mean in music?
It means the piece is not in a key.
What is the newest music made using logic pro?
Atonal or 21st century music.
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.
Who was the creator of the twelve -tone system of atonal music?
Arnold Schoenberg A+
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