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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

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive