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12-tone system

DEFINITIONS OF: 12-tone system

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n 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)

Synonyms:
12-tone music, twelve-tone music, twelve-tone system
Type of:
serial music, serialism
20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition
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