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serialism
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se·ri·al·ism  (sîr--lzm)
n. Music
1. Serial compositions.
2. The theory or composition of serial music.
seri·al·ist n.
serialism [ˈsɪərɪəˌlɪzəm]
n
(Music, other) (in 20th-century music) the use of a sequence of notes in a definite order as a thematic basis for a composition and a source from which the musical material is derived See also twelve-tone
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Noun1.serialism - 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition
serial music
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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“In the 20th century, serialists and neoclassicists spent a lot of time writing manifestos against each other to advance their cause,” says Jorge Grossmann, professor of music composition and theory at UNLV.
A chance to hear works that are classical but also new by Kristen Peterson / Las Vegas Sun
Le Marteau sans Maître, in which Alison Wells was the generously expressive mezzo soloist, may be more than 50 years old, yet it still seems a daring score, plunging the serialist aesthetic into a newly exotic world of colour, exquisite detail and intricate interconnections, as well as being a beautiful musical object.
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Starting in the 1970s, this serialist of the early years would orient his language toward a hypermelodism, ultimately producing a Gesamtkunstwerk--LICHT (1977-2003)--whose composition would take practically the rest of his life.
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