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- 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)
How To Use twelve-tone music In A Sentence
- I think one has to admit that in the works where I use the symmetrical hexachord, one probably can't any longer speak of my music as being twelve-tone music, that is, certainly not in the academic sense.
- Schoenberg created twelve-tone music
- The Schoenbergians and Webernistes didn't fit him all that well (his own twelve-tone music derived from Stravinsky and Copland).
- I could move toward total serialization, or I could move toward some reunderstanding of the chromatic situation in twelve-tone music.
