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)
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twelve-tone music::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | 12-tone music, 12-tone system, twelve-tone system |
| Type of | serial music, serialism |
Examples of twelve-tone music
twelve-tone music
In music using twelve tone techniques, the tone row is even more comprehensive a factor than a scale.
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Henze's music has incorporated neo-classicism, jazz, the twelve-tone technique, serialism, and some rock or popular music.
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Written in the composer's emotional, pre-twelve-tone style, the music predict ably irritated some listeners and in spired others.
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Later on, in twelve-tone music, serialism, and other 20th century compositional idioms it came to be considered as a neutral interval.
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Volkonsky composes in the twelve-tone style, but he is also a first-rate concert harpsichordist and a leader in the revival of baroque music in Russia.
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Classical-music critics have been skeptical of Glass for not following the avant-garde academy into twelve-tone, atonal or dissonant music, or John Cage's music of random procedures.
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His style melds the lightness of Mozart with the rhythmic complexity of Stravinsky, and, while his music is fundamentally tonal, he employ's twelve tone techniques to create tension and ambiguity.
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