There are several ways to create a just tuning of the twelve-tone scale.
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Zillig, a pupil of Schoenberg, used a twelve-tone scale made up of major and minor triads. Although such dodecaphonic techniques were officially considered "degenerate" by Nazi authorities at the time, Zillig escaped censure, and was rewarded by being commissioned to write incidental music for the Reich Theatre Festival in Heidelberg.
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Chromatic scale: every key of one octave on the piano keyboard The chromatic scale or twelve-tone scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches. As a result, in 12-tone equal temperament (the most common temperament in Western music), the chromatic scale covers all 12 of the available pitches. Thus, there is only one chromatic scale. Moreover, in equal temperament, all the semitones have the same size (100 cents) and there are twelve semitones in an octave (1200 cents).
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Detail of the Dragon Throne used by the Qianlong Emperor of China, Forbidden City, Qing dynasty. Artifact circulating in U.S. museums on loan from Beijing Asian art, music, as well as literature, are important parts of Asian culture. Harmonic music can follow the pentatonic scale as well as the twelve-tone scale; percussive music can use cymbals as well as gongs, in Asia. ;Architecture In Japan, the temples of Kyoto and Nara might be over 1,000 years old in style, but are completely rebuilt, in the same style, every few generations or so.
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He believed that present day instruments were dated and left little to no room for evolution in composition. He stated that although the instruments in the orchestra can play non-diatonic music, they are not designed for it, and to do so requires greater effort. In a similar sense, the string instruments can play music that does not fit in the twelve- tone scale system, but to accomplish that, a new system of playing would have to emerge. Lutosławski also commented on modified symphony instruments and extended technique, saying that altering the use of these "great works of art" is "unnatural" and "jarring".
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Indian classical is similar to jazz as they are both forms of improvised music. Whereas Indian classical is linear and uses just one scale (rāga) to improvise within a composition, jazz has a much broader palette for musical improvisation, where multiple scales can be used to improvise through complex harmonies. Indian classical music, however, has some of the world's most complex rhythm structures and subtle quarter tones that takes its sound far beyond the realms of the twelve tone scale. The Brown Indian Band uses the best of both styles of musical improvisation to create a very funky sound of world music.
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Octave 12-tet (left) compared with tritave 13-tet (right) What does music using a Bohlen–Pierce scale sound like, aesthetically? Dave Benson suggests it helps to use only sounds with only odd harmonics, including clarinets or synthesized tones, but argues that because "some of the intervals sound a bit like intervals in [the more familiar] twelve-tone scale, but badly out of tune", the average listener will continually feel "that something isn't quite right", due to social conditioning. Mathews and Pierce conclude that clear and memorable melodies may be composed in the BP scale, that "counterpoint sounds all right", and that "chordal passages sound like harmony", presumably meaning progression, "but without any great tension or sense of resolution".Mathews; Pierce (1989). p. 172.
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