Other composers embraced radically new approaches to pitch organization. In the early twentieth-century music of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern (a group usually referred to as the Second Viennese School) we find that intervallic and motivic cells (that is, collections of intervals or pitches used as compositional building blocks), as well as nontriadic sonorities and nonfunctional linear relationships, replace the familiar triadic, functional structures. Because this music normally does not feature any kind of tonal center or pitch centricity, we can refer to it as atonal. We should clarify, however, that this term should in no way be understood as defining the absence of pitch organization. Quite to the contrary, what we call atonal music often features sophisticated pitch relationships, as we will learn in Chapters 3 and 4. Inter
vallic and motivic cells also play a significant role in much of the music by Debussy,
Stravinsky, and Bartok.
Other composers embraced radically new approaches to pitch organization. In the early twentieth-century music of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern (a group usually referred to as the Second Viennese School) we find that intervallic and motivic cells (that is, collections of intervals or pitches used as compositional building blocks), as well as nontriadic sonorities and nonfunctional linear relationships, replace the familiar triadic, functional structures. Because this music normally does not feature any kind of tonal center or pitch centricity, we can refer to it as atonal. We should clarify, however, that this term should in no way be understood as defining the absence of pitch organization. Quite to the contrary, what we call atonal music often features sophisticated pitch relationships, as we will learn in Chapters 3 and 4. Inter
vallic and motivic cells also play a significant role in much of the music by Debussy,
Stravinsky, and Bartok.
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