1. Composers or musicians who practice or specialize in dodecaphony (twelve-tone composition), a serial compositional technique in which all twelve pitches of the chromatic scale are used equally.
Usage: plural form of dodecaphonist; music theory and composition; twentieth-century classical music

Examples

• Arnold Schoenberg and his students were among the most influential dodecaphonists of the twentieth century.
• The dodecaphonists revolutionized classical music by abandoning traditional tonal harmony.
• Many dodecaphonists developed strict compositional rules to organize their twelve-tone rows.
• Critics initially resisted the works of dodecaphonists, finding them difficult to understand.
• Alban Berg and Anton Webern were notable dodecaphonists who expanded Schoenberg's techniques.