tone system

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tone system Meaning of "tone system"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language

Usage(s):

  1. The result is an infinitely complex music which bears some slight resemblance to modern jazz and Schoenberg's twelve-tone system.
  2. My feeling is that the twelve-tone system is incapable of expressing anything but violence.
  3. The twelve-tone system does not merely express violence but rather expresses the value of abstraction.
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