Twelve Tone Technique

Famous quotes containing the words twelve, tone and/or technique:

“Ten for the Ten Commandments

Eleven for the ‘leven that went to heaven

Twelve for the twelve Apostles”
—Unknown. Carol of the Numbers (l. 30–32)

“Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month’s labor in the farmer’s almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)