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On 4/6/07, Ismael Valladolid Torres  wrote:

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> Chuckk Hubbard escribe:

> > Schoenberg used lots of harmony.  He wrote a textbook on harmony.  His

> > atonal systems even had some highly-developed ways of using harmony.

>

> Not exactly. According to one colleague in other mailing list, he

> wrote the most advanced textbook on harmony ever written.

>

> Obviously if you use the twelve notes, some of them will sound

> harmonically in any moment.

We looked at a Schoenberg piece in freshman theory where he used a

three-note tone row over and over again in both melodic and harmonic

forms.  None of the harmonies violated it.  I believe it was 0, 1, 4.

I don't recall the piece, but it was pretty strict.  The tone row was

not merely a melodic rule.  The harmonic rules of his system may not

have been tonal, but they existed.
-Chuckk
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