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twelve-tone system is a noun meaning "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)". It carries one recorded sense.
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)
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for twelve-tone system come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.