- 12-tone system as a noun:
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12-tone system
noun
1 12-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).
synonyms: 12-tone music, twelve-tone music, twelve-tone system.
Polish: dodekafonia
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