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NOUN (1)

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);
[syn: twelve-tone music, 12-tone music, twelve-tone system, 12-tone system]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

twelve-tone system
    n 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) [syn: twelve-tone music, 12-tone music, twelve-
         tone system, 12-tone system]