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twelve-tone

twelve-tone
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [twelv tohn]
    • /twɛlv toʊn/
    • /twelv təʊn/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [twelv tohn]
    • /twɛlv toʊn/

Definitions of twelve-tone word

  • adjective twelve-tone based on or incorporating the twelve-tone technique: twelve-tone music. 1
  • adjective twelve-tone using or advocating the twelve-tone technique: a twelve-tone composer. 1
  • adjective twelve-tone of, relating to, or denoting the type of serial music invented and developed by Arnold Schoenberg, which uses as musical material a tone row formed by the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale, together with its inverted and retrograde versions. The technique has been applied in various ways by different composers and usually results in music in which there are few, if any, tonal centres 0
  • adjective twelve-tone designating or of a system or technique of serial composition, developed by Arnold Schönberg, in which the twelve tones of the chromatic scale are arranged into some arbitrary, fixed succession (tone row) which then forms a basis for development 0
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Origin of twelve-tone

First appearance:

before 1935
One of the 8% newest English words
First recorded in 1935-40

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Parts of speech for Twelve-tone

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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twelve-tone popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 32% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

Synonyms for twelve-tone

adjective twelve-tone

  • atonal — Atonal music is music that is not written or played in any key or system of scales.
Just one Synonym for twelve-tone

Related words

  • pantonality

    twelve-tone technique.

  • serialism

    twelve-tone technique.

  • tone row

    a series of tones in which no tone is duplicated, and in which the tones generally recur in fixed sequence, with variations in rhythm and pitch, throughout a composition.

  • twelve-tone row

    tone row.

  • twelve-tone technique

    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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