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12-tone music
Noun12-tone music has 1 sense
twelve-tone music, 12-tone music, twelve-tone system, 12-tone system - 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) --1is a kind ofserialism, serial music