adjective
- relating to or using the twelve-tone technique in music composition
Usage: music theory
Examples
- Schoenberg developed the dodecaphonic method in the 1920s.
- The composer’s dodecaphonic works challenged traditional harmonic structures.
- Students struggled to analyze the dodecaphonic piece.
- Her dodecaphonic composition used all twelve chromatic pitches equally.
- The orchestra performed a dodecaphonic symphony by Berg.
- Critics debated the merits of dodecaphonic versus tonal music.