Definitions For Dodecaphonist

Noun

DODECAPHONIST (plural DODECAPHONISTs) (music) A practitioner or proponent of dodecaphony, i.e. use of the dodecaphonic musical scale, which has twelve tones per octave : The pioneering Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg was the leading dodecaphonist.

Translations

Dutch: dodecafonist, m, {{qualifier, obsolete}} dodecaphonist, m French: dodécaphoniste, m, f German: Dodekaphonist, m

Etymology

International word formed circa 1950 from "twelve" + φωνή, , sound + -ist, recorded in English since 1953, presumably modeled on {{cog, de, Dodekaphonist}}.

Is Dodecaphonist a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

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22
Words with Friends
24

The word Dodecaphonist is worth 22 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends

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