pentatonic twelve-tone五声性十二音
Twelve-tone chord十二音和弦
twelve-tone system十二音制;十二音体系
twelve-tone method十二音
Twelve-tone composition十二音技法
Twelve-tone Music十二音音乐
twelve-tone harmony十二音和声
twelve-tone E十二音既
Twelve-tone technique十二音列
ADJ(形容词) of, relating to, or denoting the type of serial music invented and developed by Arnold Schoenberg, which uses as musical material a tone row formed by the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale, together with its inverted and retrograde versions. The technique has been applied in various ways by different composers and usually results in music in which there are few, if any, tonal centres 十二音体系的→see serialism