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English noun: twelve-tone music

1. twelve-tone music (communication) a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)


Synonyms12-tone music, 12-tone system, twelve-tone system


Broader (hypernym)serial music, serialism









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