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12-TONE SYSTEM

Definition:

1. [noun] 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)
   Synonyms: twelve-tone music, 12-tone music, twelve-tone system
   
   

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