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Tone cluster

A tone cluster is a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale. Prototypical tone clusters are based on the chromatic scale and are separated by semitones. For instance, three adjacent piano keys (such as C, C♯, and D) struck simultaneously produce a tone cluster. Variants of the tone cluster include chords comprising adjacent…

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Music theory and classification

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related to In jazz · 43
Tone cluster → And His Mother Called, Around, Art Tatum's, Artie Matthews's Pastime Rags, Bill Evans, Blanton, Bright Mississippi, By, Cecil Taylor, Come Rain, Come Shine, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington's, During, Francis Davis, Freddy Blues, French, Herbie Nichols, Him Bill, Horace Silver
related to In later classical music · 39
Tone cluster → Aaron Copland, Already, Amplified Piano, At, Bartók's First Piano Concerto, Béla Bartók, Cowell, Cowell's, Dane Rudhyar, December, Doors, Elegiac Songs, George Crumb's Apparitions, Grandpiano, Holocaust, In, John Cage, Joseph Schwantner's, Jésus, Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstück
related to Listening · 29
Tone cluster → Airplane, American Mavericks, Concerto, Cowell, Exultation, Henry Cowell, HolocaustJohn Cage, Hyperion, In, In The Name Of, John Cage, Leo Ornstein, Life, Manaunaun, Marc-André Hamelin's, Margaret Leng TanOrnstein Piano, Maverick, Music, Name, Orchestra
related to In popular music · 27
Tone cluster → Around, Big Pink, Doors, Ed Ward, Grace Slick, In, Jefferson Airplane's, Jerry Lee Lewis's, John Cale, Kraftwerk's, Light My Fire, Like, Marty Balin, Music, On The Velvet Underground's, Out, Paul Kantner, Ray Manzarek, September, Since
related to In classical music of the early 1900s · 24
Tone cluster → Around, Atlantic, Bells, Buchanan, Canadian, Charles, Danse Sauvage, Gumsuckers March, Harold, He, Humfrey Anger, Impressions, In, Leo Ornstein, Notre Dame, Ornstein, Ornstein's, Percy Grainger, Schonberg, Thames
related to In the work of Henry Cowell · 19
Tone cluster → Adventures, Assumed, Californian, Cowell, Cowell's, Dynamic Motion, For, Harmony, He, Henry Cowell, In, In June, Ives, Manaunaun, New York, Ornstein, The Tides, Though, Western
related to Use in other music · 19
Tone cluster → Benjamin Britten, Chinese, Curlew River, Eastern, In, India's Pardhan, Isang Yun, Its, Japanese, Korean German, Lou Harrison's Pacifika Rondo, Malayan, Much, Several East Asian, The, Traditional Korean, Western, Wubaduhesheng, Yoritsune Matsudaira
related to Music theory and classification · 17
Tone cluster → Commentators, Diatonic, Each, Epitaph, For, However, In, In Western, Moonlight, Murray Schafer's, Prototypical, Stacks, Their, This, Three-note, Western, While
related to Before the 1900s · 12
Tone cluster → Allegro, An, Bach's Cantata, BWV, Donnerwort, Ewigkeit, From, Heinrich Biber's Battalia, Jean-Féry Rebel's, Les, The, Western
related to Notation and execution · 11
Tone cluster → Cowell, D2, D4, György Ligeti, Here, In, Manaunaun, The, The Tides, This, Volumina

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Tone clusteris amusical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale0.90text
Lou Harrisoninstance ofthey have prominently featured in the work of composers0.80text
Giacinto Scelsiinstance ofthey have prominently featured in the work of composers0.80text
Alfred Schnittkeinstance ofthey have prominently featured in the work of composers0.80text
Karlheinz Stockhauseninstance ofthey have prominently featured in the work of composers0.80text
and later Eric Whitacreinstance ofthey have prominently featured in the work of composers0.80text
Cecil Taylorinstance ofTone clusters also play a significant role in the work of free jazz musicians0.80text
Matthew Shippinstance ofTone clusters also play a significant role in the work of free jazz musicians0.80text
and Kevin Kastning.In most Western musicinstance ofTone clusters also play a significant role in the work of free jazz musicians0.80text
tone clusters tend to be heard as dissonantinstance ofTone clusters also play a significant role in the work of free jazz musicians0.80text
his Second String Quartetinstance ofIves also wrote ensemble pieces with tone clusters0.80text
the orchestral movementsinstance ofIves also wrote ensemble pieces with tone clusters0.80text

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