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Definition of twelve-note in English: twelve-note(also twelve-tone) adjective Denoting a system of musical composition using the twelve chromatic notes of the octave on an equal basis without dependence on a key system. Developed by Arnold Schoenberg, the technique is central to serialism and involves the transposition and inversion of a fixed sequence of pitches. Example sentencesExamples - Inversion of a row or series of notes is fundamental to twelve-note, or serial, music.
- I could move toward total serialization, or I could move toward some reunderstanding of the chromatic situation in twelve-tone music.
- He had met Arnold Schoenberg, who became his teacher, in the fall of 1904, but they had not yet begun to work out the twelve-tone system.
- The Schoenbergians and Webernistes didn't fit him all that well (his own twelve-tone music derived from Stravinsky and Copland).
- Out of this dialectical imitation, this not wholly fictive dialogue, Schoenberg's twelve-tone sonata locates itself in the German tradition, which is made to anticipate and authorize his development of that tradition.
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