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Cardiology A clinical trial–Evaluation of Losartan in the Elderly in which Pts with NY Heart Association–NYHA class II–IV heart failure were randomized to receive either captopril or losartan. See Angiotensin II receptor antagonists.

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Within the first five bars they play all twelve pitch classes, some in more than one octave.

Still being an American composer: Milton Babbitt at eighty

First, each measure contains exactly twelve pitches: not twelve attacks - there are frequent two- or three-part simultaneities - but twelve different pitch classes, which turn out to form permutations of a twelve-note row.

Changing the metaphor: ratio models of musical pitch in the work of Harry Partch, Ben Johnston, and James Tenney

Exact intonation within the twelve pitch categories is not specified in the model.

Applying psychoacoustics in composition: "harmonic" progressions of "nonharmonic" sonorities

What constantly astounds me is that while we have only twelve pitches to nurture, how incredibly different they all feel depending on context, register, text, dynamic, articulation, tempo and emotion!

The Art and Skills of Learning (New) Music: Lucy Shelton's Practice Guide

Given the hegemony of twelve-tone rows in Western modern classicism (favoring numerical permutations of all twelve pitches in a scale over the concepts of major/ minor tonal harmony and melody that had been cherished since the Renaissance), a potential alliance between computers and the midcentury pencil-and-paper composer was almost innate.