Arnold Schoenberg and Serial Music Arnold Schoenberg was a renowned Viennese musician whose compositions consisted solely of serial music. He was born in Vienna, Austria in 1874 and began composing music for violins before he was nine years old. Serialism, Schoenberg’s go-to music style, was a type of looping music played on a twelve-tone chromatic scale, meaning that all twelve notes must first be played before a note is repeated. Each time the twelve notes were repeated, the cycle started over with the same notes at different times in different places. According to encyclopedia.com , Schoenberg was actually the one who invented serial music, or the twelve-tone chromatic scale . When he made this breakthrough in his 40’s, he expected