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
He is also interested in more stringent twelve-tone technique, and dips into that idiom every now and then.
From Time Magazine Archive
Written in the twelve-tone technique, it combines all the nervous subtleties of that idiom with the undeniable decadence of Berg's own style, but still appeals strongly to the ear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Henze's music is largely in a clangorous twelve-tone technique.
From Time Magazine Archive
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