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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024twelve-tone (twelv′tōn′),USA pronunciation adj. [Music.]- Music and Dancebased on or incorporating the twelve-tone technique:twelve-tone music.
- Music and Danceusing or advocating the twelve-tone technique:a twelve-tone composer.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: twelve-tone adj - of, relating to, or denoting the type of serial music invented and developed by Arnold Schoenberg, which uses as musical material a tone row formed by the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale, together with its inverted and retrograde versions. The technique has been applied in various ways by different composers and usually results in music in which there are few, if any, tonal centres
See serialism
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