Meaning Of The Word Twelve-tone

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twelve-tone in American English
designating or of a system or technique of serial composition, developed by Arnold Schönberg, in which the twelve tones of the chromatic scale are arranged into some arbitrary, fixed succession (tone row) which then forms a basis for development
adjective: based on or incorporating the twelve-tone technique

twelve-tone in British English
adjective: of, relating to, or denoting the type of serial music invented and developed by Arnold Schoenberg, which uses as musical material a tone row formed by the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale, together with its inverted and retrograde versions. The techniq

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