twelve-tone music

NOUN
17 LETTERS · STARTS WITH T

twelve-tone music is a valid 17-letter word worth 25 points in Scrabble and 31 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
T1W4E1L1V4E1-0T1O1N1E1M3U1S1I1C3
1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 =25 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 50TRIPLE WORD → 75
MEANING

What does twelve-tone music mean?

NOUN · 1 SENSE
1

A type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row).

SYNONYMS
12-TONE MUSIC12-TONE SYSTEMTWELVE-TONE SYSTEM