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twelve-tone technique

American  

noun

Music.
  1. a modern system of tone relationships in which the 12 tones of an octave are not centered around any one tone, but are unified by a selected order of tones for a given composition.


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By reputation an expert practitioner of twelve-tone technique, Lieberson had always had a secret yen for sensuous, late-Romantic harmony.

From The Guardian • May 28, 2013

Their music is based on jazz materials, but it is embroidered with twelve-tone technique and polyrhythms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Four of them are in his revolutionary twelve-tone technique; all provide fascinating, sometimes irritating, ear-tweaking listening.

From Time Magazine Archive

Four poetic movements in the often unpoetic twelve-tone technique.

From Time Magazine Archive

One result was that musical ideas could not be fully developed with Stravinsky's twelve-tone technique.

From Time Magazine Archive

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