12-tone music

Noun
  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) (synset 107071579)
    is a type of: serial music, serialism - 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition
    same as: 12-tone system, twelve-tone music, twelve-tone system

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