serial music

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serial music - 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition

serialism

music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

12-tone music, 12-tone system, twelve-tone music, twelve-tone system - a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)

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12-tone music 12-tone system Babbitt Boulez dodecaphonic music Pierre Boulez serial serialism twelve-tone twelve-tone music twelve-tone system			Instead, he used complex, dissonant, atonal and serial music, but could still write lush melodies when needed. Leonard Rosenman; OBITUARY by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Departing briefly from Foucault's essay, I argue that Gilles Deleuze fully understood why Foucault considered the project of serial music an important model; in fact Deleuze's notion of an "atonal logic" shows how the bodies of statements (enonce) in different epistemes have the same relationship to each other as do different manifestations of the series in a serial composition. Passing through the Screen: Pierre Boulez and Michel Foucault (1) by Rorich, Mary / Journal of Literary Studies Copland may have written some serial music, but no one listens to the stuff, even those of us who've tried. Gay composers wrote serial music, too by The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide			Sergeantcy Sergeantry Sergeantship sergeanty Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky Sergei Diaghilev Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninov Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov serger Sergipe Sergt serial serial assignment table serial correlation Serial homology serial killer serial killing serial monogamy serial murderer serial music serial number serial operation serial port serial printer serial processing serial publication Serial symmetry serialisation serialise serialism Seriality serialization serialize serially seriate seriatim Seriation sericea lespedeza sericeous sericin Sericite Sericocarpus sericterium serictery sericultural			Serial magazine Serial magazine Serial magazine Serial Magnitude Serial Magnitude Command Serial Management Interface Serial Management Protocol Serial marrier serial matrix printer serial matrix printer Serial measurements Serial Media Independent Interface Serial Media Working Group serial memory Serial Mode Register Serial Modem Adaptive Array Serial monogamist Serial monogamist serial monogamy serial monogamy Serial Mouse Serial murder Serial murder Serial murder serial murderer serial murderer Serial Murderers Serial Murderers Serial murders Serial murders serial music Serial Network Flow Monitor serial number serial number serial number Serial Number Arithmetic Serial Number Recognition Accountability System Serial Number Reporting Requirement Serial Number Tracking Serial Number Tracking System Serial Number/Password serial numbers serial numbers serial observation serial operation serial operation serial order Serial Out Serial Output Serial over LAN Serial Over TCP Serial Parallel Digital Serial passage Serial passage Serial passage Serial passage Serial Pattern of Expression Levels Locator Serial PCMCIA Tactical Communications Interface Modem Serial Peripheral Interface Serial Peripheral Interface Serial Peripheral Interface 0

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