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twelve-tone technique

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Also 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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Category:Twelve-tone technique
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Twelve-tone technique
discoverer or inventor
Arnold Schoenberg
described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
inception
1923-00-00
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Arnold Schoenberg, inventor of the twelve-tone technique

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