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twelve-tone technique

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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

From Webern, Boulez derived and refined Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique to its uttermost austerity, and from Messiaen he absorbed an interest in Oriental cultures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Henze's music is largely in a clangorous twelve-tone technique.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is also interested in more stringent twelve-tone technique, and dips into that idiom every now and then.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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