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tone row

noun

, Music.
  1. 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.

tone row

noun

  1. See twelve-tone, serialism
    music 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 Also callednote row See also serialism twelve-tone

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Origin of tone row1

First recorded in 1940–45

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