dodecaphonic, a. Mus.
(ˌdəʊdɪkəˈfɒnɪk, dəʊˌdɛkəˈfɒnɪk)
[Gr. δώδεκα twelve + phonic a.]
Of, relating to, or using, the twelve-note system, a method of composition formulated by Arnold Schönberg. Hence doˈdecaphonism (also ˌdəʊdɪˈkæfənɪz(ə)m), doˈdecaˌphony (-ˌfəʊnɪ, also ˌdəʊdɪˈkæfənɪ), the twelve-note system; dodecaphonist (dəʊˈdɛkəfənɪst, ˌdəʊdɪˈkæfənɪst), a composer using this system.
| 1950 L. O. Symkins in {Eacu}tude Sept. 12 (title) Schœnberg's new world of dodecaphonic music. 1951 Musical Q. XXXVII. 95 We dislike Schœnbergism, atonalism, dodecaphonism, and the rest. 1952 Ibid. XXXVIII. 604 Schollum's Second Sonata is in its combination of linearity, Romantic expressiveness, and dodecaphony a mixture of styles. 1953 N.Y. Times 2 Feb. 18/8 Like the majority of dodecaphonists, he presents music governed by strict logic and organization. 1955 Oxf. Compan. Mus. (ed. 9) 698/1 All the twelve notes of the octave are employed in every composition, and all the notes are treated in such a way as to enjoy an equal footing... Theorists of the Schönberg school prefer to call his method not a chromatic one but ‘Dodecaphonic’. 1955 Times 11 May 7/6 Dallapiccola's music, written before his conversion to dodecaphony, never failed to heighten the emotion. 1970 Daily Tel. 20 May 16/5 No amount of explaining could trace dodecaphony in Tippett's 2nd Symphony. |