- a group of notes having a characteristic pattern or order that forms the basis of the musical material in a serial composition, esp one consisting of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale
See also serialism, twelve-tone
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tone′ row′, [Music.]
- a series of tones in which no tone is duplicated, and in which the tones generally recur in fixed sequence, with variations in rhythm and pitch, throughout a composition. Also called note row, twelve-tone row.
- 1940–45
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tone row, tone series n
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