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whole-tone scale N

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Asymmetrical phrasing, whole-tone scales, and polytonality are foreign to music of the classical era.
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Its polyrhythmic melodies use whole-tone scales.
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The whole-tone scale is also maximally even, for instance adjacent notes are separated only by whole-tones.
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While the overall atmosphere is restrained and devout in feeling, the harmony underpinning the music is experimental, including an extensive use of the whole-tone scale.
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The first movement is in sonata form, with a main theme based on the whole-tone scale.
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Due to this symmetry, the hexachord consisting of the whole-tone scale is not distinct under inversion or more than one transposition.
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The music uses modal and whole-tone scales, as well as a great deal of chromaticism.
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A rare alternate form is one in which each row of bars is arranged in a whole-tone scale, and the rows are a semitone apart.
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It uses octatonic and whole-tone scales, augmented triads and diminished seventh chords, and more chromaticism than in the composer's earlier works.
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He employed tone clusters, angular fragments, whole-tone scales and bizarre moments of repetition, space and contrast.
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