12-TONE SYSTEM as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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)
   Synonym(s)
   • 12-tone music (what does 12-tone music mean?)
   • twelve-tone music (what does twelve-tone music mean?)
   • twelve-tone system (what does twelve-tone system mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) 12-tone system is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • serialism (what does serialism mean?)
   • serial music (what does serial music mean?)