Definition: Meaning of, twelve-tone system in English to English dictionary.
Pronunciation:/ twɛlv təʊn ˈsɪstəm /
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twelve-tone system
twelve-tone systems
and inverted or backward versions of the row a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale