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12-tone music

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Noun1.12-tone music - a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg12-tone music - 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)
12-tone system, twelve-tone music, twelve-tone system
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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On the 1923 invention of 12-tone music, he writes: "In the mad year of hyperinflation, Schoenberg offered a kind of stabilization - the conversion of a chaotic musical marketplace to a planned economy.
Sound of the century by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
A student of Arnold Schoenberg, Webern composed 12-tone music that dispenses with traditional harmony and substitutes a precise mathematical arrangement in which each of the 12 notes of the scale occurs without repeating.
Symphony's 6-minute challenge by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Byline: Glyn MOn Hughes ASK most people to go to a recital of 12-tone music and they'll fight shy.
Music: OPERA: High drama in the high notes; Glyn MOn Hughes on WNO ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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