Usually means: Serial composition using twelve tones.
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Definitions from WordNet (12-tone system)

noun:  a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)


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