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12-tone system

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Noun1.12-tone system - a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg12-tone system - 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 music, 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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