twelve-tone technique
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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
The sonata, sometimes using the twelve-tone technique, is full of ultramodern patterns, but they are served up in comparatively palatable form: there are moments of humor, drama and bewitchingly strange sounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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