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

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International artificial word formed circa 1950 from Ancient Greek δώδεκα (dódeka, "twelve") + φωνή (phonè, "sound") + -ist, recorded in English since 1953, presumably modeled on German Dodekaphonist.

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