Trope (music)
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A trope or tropus in medieval music is "any textual or melodic figure that is added to an existing chant without altering the textual or melodic structure of the said chant". It has inspired certain 2
Troparium (called as such because the tropes of the chant are written down) of St. Michael, who is depicted fighting fantastic birds, 11th century
Josef Matthias Hauer
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Josef Matthias Hauer was an Austrian composer and music theorist. He is best known for developing, independent of and a year or two before Arnold Schoenberg, a method for composing with all 12 notes o
Trope (music)
…an unordered hexachord, of which there are two complementary ones in twelve-tone equal temperament). Tropes in this sense were devised and named by Josef Matthias Hauer in connection with his own twelve-tone technique, developed simultaneously with but overshadowed by Arnold Schoenberg's. Hauer discovered the 44 tropes…
Hauer's birthplace in Wiener Neustadt