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twelve-tone technique

musical composition method using all 12 chromatic scale notes equally often & not in a key
Intangible music_genre Q221686
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Summary

twelve-tone technique is a music genre[1]. It draws 3,795 Wikipedia views per month (music genre category, ranking #204 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Arnold Schoenberg[3]
  • Instance of: compositional technique[4], dodecad[5]
  • Subclass of: serialist technique[6], modern classical music[7]
  • Commons category: Twelve-tone technique[8]
  • Inception: 1923[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Twelve-tone technique[10]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11]
  • Different from: Dodekafonia[12]
  • Uses: tone row[13]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q12339532[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15]

Why It Matters

twelve-tone technique has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 96 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Alban Berg Arnold Schoenberg Luigi Dallapiccola

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → twelve-tone-system
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: twelve-tone-system, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289972486|twelve tone system (#289972486)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|H"
  2. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0357322-dodekafonie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0357322-dodekafonie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → music genre, compositional technique, dodecad
    Uses → tone row
    Inception → —
    Different from → Dodekafonia
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ Yso id: 14413, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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