English Explanatory Dictionary

dodecaphonist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A practitioner or proponent of dodecaphony, i.e. use of the dodecaphonic musical scale, which has twelve tones per octave

Word forms

dodecaphonist dodecaphonists

Etymology

International word formed circa 1950 from Ancient Greek δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “twelve”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”) + -ist, recorded in English since 1953, presumably modeled on German Dodekaphonist.

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