 12-tone_music |
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| 1. | [ noun ] (music,fine art) 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_system twelve-tone_system twelve-tone_music | |
| Related terms: | serialism | |
