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twelve-tone technique
Sign in to saveAlso known as twelve-tone music, dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, twelve-note composition, twelve-note technique, twelve-note serialism, twelve-note music, 12-tone technique
musical composition method using all 12 chromatic scale notes equally often & not in a key
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- 12tones-my example1.JPG
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- topic's main category
- Category:Twelve-tone technique
- Commons category
- Twelve-tone technique
- discoverer or inventor
- Arnold Schoenberg
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- uses
- tone row
- inception
- 1923-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Arnold Schoenberg, inventor of the twelve-tone technique
Example of Hauer's tropes
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