How do you pronounce Twelve-Tone Technique?

Twelve-Tone Technique is pronounced "/twɛlv təʊn tɛkˈniːk/".

What is the opposite of Twelve-Tone Technique?

The opposite of Twelve-Tone Technique includes: tonal composition, diatonic.

Twelve-Tone Technique

A method of composition that treats all twelve chromatic pitches as equal, ordering them into a fixed row that governs the entire work.

About Twelve-Tone Technique

Twelve-tone technique (also called dodecaphony or serialism in its broader form) was developed by Arnold Schoenberg in the early 1920s as a systematic approach to atonal compositionCompositionThe art and craft of creating original music by organising sounds, rhythms, and harmonies into a…View full entry →. The composer arranges all twelve pitchPitchThe perceived highness or lowness of a sound, determined by its frequency.View full entry → classes of the chromatic scaleChromatic ScaleA scale comprising all twelve semitones within an octaveView full entry → into a specific order called a tone row or series, then derives all melodic and harmonic material from this row and its transformations: retrograde (reversed), inversionInversionThe process of flipping an interval or rearranging the notes of a chord so a different note is in…View full entry → (intervals flipped), and retrograde inversion.