Provide a brief description of twelve-tone technique.
What will be an ideal response?
A tone row is used as the basis of twelve-tone composition. The row is used either in its original (prime) form or in transposition, inversion, retrograde, or retrograde inversion. Forms of the row interact to form the composition.
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