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Twelve-tone system
/twɛlv-toʊn
sˈɪstəm/
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Twelve-tone system
noun
1.
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
,
12-tone system
,
twelve-tone music
.
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