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Noun: twelve-tone system
  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)
    - twelve-tone music, 12-tone music, 12-tone system

Derived forms: twelve-tone systems

Type of: serial music, serialism

Encyclopedia: Twelve-tone system

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