John Smyth wrote:

>Steve Schwartz writes:
>
>>However, all sorts of composers used Schoenberg's basic method.
>>Some of them used it to create melodies in the more traditional sense:
>>Dallapiccola, Gerhard, and Ginastera come to mind.  Listen to something
>>like Dallapiccola's "Canti di prighiona" or Ginastera's Piano Concerto No.
>>1.
>
>Yes, but I find this traditionally-oriented music equally frustrating--to
>me, it sounds like Schoenberg with all the wrong notes!

Shostakovich's String Quartet #14 and Britten's Cantata Academica are two
works that use very basic twelve-tone techniques and sound really nice,
due to their respective composers' renegotiation of Schoenberg's system.

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