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twelve-tone system

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1. n. 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) Source: wordnet

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twelve arnold backward chromatic formed introduced inverted music scale Schoenberg semitones serial tone type versions

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