Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
dodecaphony
Etymologies
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Examples
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That aside, my views on Boulez ever-evolving as they are are fairly clear: it's obvious, in 2008, that dodecaphonic atonal music didn't win the battle for the hearts and minds of the musical cognoscenti.
"some safe, undecisive [sic Patrick J. Smith 2008
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He wrote that "any musician who has not experienced — we do not say understood, but experienced — the necessity of the dodecaphonic language is USELESS," which everyone understood to mean Stravinsky.
The 'Mash of Myriad Sounds' Kimmelman, Michael 2008
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The Steve Reich Collection at the Paul Sacher Foundation covers the composer's entire oeuvre, from his dodecaphonic early works to his very latest creations, such as Daniel Variations (2006) and Double Sextet (2007).
Archives Lisa Hirsch 2008
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That aside, my views on Boulez ever-evolving as they are are fairly clear: it's obvious, in 2008, that dodecaphonic atonal music didn't win the battle for the hearts and minds of the musical cognoscenti.
Archive 2008-12-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008
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The Steve Reich Collection at the Paul Sacher Foundation covers the composer's entire oeuvre, from his dodecaphonic early works to his very latest creations, such as Daniel Variations (2006) and Double Sextet (2007).
Archive 2008-12-01 Lisa Hirsch 2008
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Last winter, I dragged Chris to see Wozzeck, a modern German opera that, while not atonal and only occasionally dodecaphonic, sounds dissonant and strange.
One thing about LiveJournal that annoys me. bradamant 2002
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Here was obviously a great future talent for atonal and dodecaphonic scores.
An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977
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By this principle, Stravinsky will be able to "supervise" future recordings of his oeuvre for years to come, in quadraphonic, dodecaphonic, and interplanetary sound, or whatever other inanities of planned obsolescence remain to be devised.
Stravinsky Hamilton, David 1972
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The third Babbitt work was "It Takes Twelve to Tango" 1984, a short, lively version of the Argentine dance, refracted through a dodecaphonic prism.
NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2011
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With its ripping three-chord chorus riff, "Worried Worried" is a prepunk classic, while "Oyster Thins" starts with a dodecaphonic guitar/vocal line that segues into a bluesy march, replete with brushes on snare drum.
Chicago Reader 2010
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