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twelve-tone music
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twelve-tone music: see serial music serial music, the body of compositions whose fundamental syntactical reference is a particular ordering (called series or row) of the twelve pitch classes—C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B—that constitute the equal-tempered scale.
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Thus they are "inverred-retrograde"--a term that, as it happens, also refers to a technique used in Schonberg's twelve-tone system, a structure that can be manipulated (inverted, reversed, or both) to enable a variety of sounds.
Simon Starling: Casey Kaplan. (New York) by Meredith, Michael / Artforum International
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