: of, relating to, or being serial music utilizing the 12 chromatic tones
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Notable modernists include Virginia Woolf (stream-of-consciousness novels), Pablo Picasso (cubism), Arnold Schoenberg (twelve-tone technique), and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (International Style architecture).—Hazlitt, 10 Apr. 2024 The First Quartet precedes Schoenberg’s break from tonality; the Third is from his twelve-tone period.—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
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