twelve-tone music (n)
12-tone music (n)
twelve-tone system (n)
12-tone system (n)

n07057539

type n
lex_filenum 10
def a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg
def uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
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Hypernym serialism, serial music
Incoming links
Hyponym serialism, serial music

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