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12-tone system
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Noun 12-tone system has 1 sense
- 12-tone system(n = noun.communication) 12-tone music, twelve-tone music, twelve-tone system - 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); Array is a kind of serial music, serialism
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