By 1923 this composer developed a new way of writing music known as twelve-tone composition. It solved the
problem of formal anarchy in totally chromatic music by providing a method that created musical unity among pitches,
forcing an equality of significance that sought to eliminate the necessity of the tonic chord as a tonal center.
a. Schoenberg
b. Shostakovich
c. Debussy
d. Ives
e. Varèse
ANSWER: a
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