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The single most important second in defining the course of music all through the century was the widespread break with traditional tonality, effected in various methods by different composers in the first decade of the century. From this sprang an unprecedented “linguistic plurality” of styles, strategies, and expression. In Vienna, Arnold Schoenberg developed atonality, out of the expressionism that arose within the early a part of the 20th century. He later developed the twelve-tone method which was developed additional by his disciples Alban Berg and Anton Webern; later composers developed it additional nonetheless. Stravinsky explored twelve-tone technique, too, as did …