twelve-tone music

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twelve-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 music, 12-tone system, 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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