Usually means: Serial technique organizing pitch classes.
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  1. twelve-tone: Merriam-Webster
  2. twelve-tone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. twelve-tone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. twelve-tone, twelve-tone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. twelve-tone: Wordnik
  6. twelve-tone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. twelve-tone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. twelve-tone: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. twelve-tone: Dictionary.com
  10. Twelve-tone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. twelve-tone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. twelve-tone: Wiktionary

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  1. twelve-tone: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  (music) Using or relating to the twelve-tone technique.

Similar:
twelvemonth, sixteenth note, diatonic scale, quarter tone, pentatonic scale, tone poem, diatonic, twelve noon, musical scale, pentatonic, more...

Phrases:
twelve-tone music, twelve-tone system, twelve-tone technique, twelve-tone row, more...

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Similar:
twelvemonth, sixteenth note, diatonic scale, quarter tone, pentatonic scale, tone poem, diatonic, twelve noon, musical scale, pentatonic, more...

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twelve-tone music, twelve-tone system, twelve-tone technique, twelve-tone row, more...



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