dodecaphony

noun

dodecaphony

noun

Etymology From dodeca- + -phony.

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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Twelve-tone music, a form of composition using all twelve tones of the chromatic scale in such a way that they are equal, i.e. having no tonic, no dominant, no major key or minor keys, and no distinction between harmony and dissonance.

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