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TWELVE-TONE MUSIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does twelve-tone music mean?
• TWELVE-TONE MUSIC (noun)
The noun TWELVE-TONE MUSIC has 1 sense:
1. 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)
Familiarity information: TWELVE-TONE MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
12-tone music; 12-tone system; twelve-tone music; twelve-tone system
Hypernyms ("twelve-tone music" is a kind of...):
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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