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
Their music is based on jazz materials, but it is embroidered with twelve-tone technique and polyrhythms.
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
In Italy, the land of Verdi and Puccini, Luigi Dallapiccola, 46, is the chief disciple of Arnold Schoenberg's strange-to-the-ear twelve-tone technique.
From Time Magazine Archive
A visit to Paris shook him out of his native conservatism: he experimented with radical rhythmical structures, later with the twelve-tone technique, but absorbed only what he wanted from them and went his own way.
From Time Magazine Archive
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