do·dec·a·phon·ic

(dō′dĕk-ə-fŏn′ĭk)

adj.

Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.

[Greek dōdeka, twelve; see dodecagon + phon(o)-, tone, pitch + -ic.]

do·dec′a·phon·ist (dō-dĕk′ə-fə-nĭst, dō′də-kăf′ə-) n.

do·dec′a·phon′y (dō-dĕk′ə-fō′nē, dō′də-kăf′ə-), do·dec′a·phon·ism n.

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dodecaphonist

(ˌdəʊdɛkəˈfɒnɪst)

(Classical Music) music a user of the twelve-tone system of serial music

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dodécaphoniste

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As a dodecaphonist, he underscored creation over methodology; he was also open to new electronic means of composition and he even experimented with indeterminacy.

Robert Gerhard i la seva obra

Lang had made the same point, more succinctly, two years earlier: "Stravinsky has capitulated to the dodecaphonists" ("Editorial," Musical Quarterly 44 (1958): 505).

Babbitt and Stravinsky under the serial 'regime.'

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