Twelve Tone

Word TWELVE TONE
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Relating to, consisting of, or based on an arrangement of the 12 chromatic tones. adjective

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The word "twelve-tone" in example sentences

Speaking only for myself, I was very relieved when I heard a twelve-tone piece of Rochberg's and I disliked it just as much as I disliked his tonal stuff. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

In music, conventional rhythm and melody were set aside in favor of atonal, serial, dissonant, and twelve-tone compositions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I've never been able to make sense of that story that after Rochberg's son died he realized he could no longer write twelve-tone music. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

Probably the Rochberg story was made significant by people who were looking for yet another way to bash twelve-tone music (whatever that is). ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

I've just been teaching some twelve-tone pieces (Babbitt Duet and Widow's Lament in Springtime, Schoenberg 4th quartet and Serenade) so I'm interested in the subject. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

An uninspired twelve-tone composition may strike us as "academic" in a way that a paint-by-numbers sonata movement may not, but in both cases the weakness is not the process used but that the finished product was so lame that the process was left as the most interesting feature. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

Incidentally, I think that Babbitt's Words About Music is about the best explanation of what it is about twelve-tone music that would maybe make someone want to play that particular game. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

I'll refer you to Alex Ross, who writes in The Rest is Noise: In the late sixties and early seventies, twelve-tone composers were reaching the height of their influence. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

Despite brief experiments with twelve-tone writing in the 1940s and 1950s, her music rarely ventures beyond extended tonality, emphasizing coloristic harmony and diatonic dissonance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. ASTATQE: (unintelligible) is very Ethiopian, and what you have, actually, combined is the harmonic stretches, what we call the twelve-tone musical stretches because our musical instruments hasn't reached to that stage, so I have actually to use pianos or guitars to actually combine three - to five-tone scales. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rautavaara started off writing twelve-tone serial music, but made a switch later in his career to more conservative, tonal music with a slight edge to it. ❋ Sfmike (2008)

That first day back on the streets of New York is like a twelve-tone symphony of stupidity and malice composed by a reanimated and insane Arnold Schoenberg. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2008)

The hallmarks of their style were atonality and a twelve-tone method of composition; that is, a style in which a piece's melodies and harmonies are all drawn from a particular arrangement of twelve semitones or half-steps on the modern scale. ❋ M-mv (2008)

He wrote serial music, twelve-tone, atonal music which is also spectacular. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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