Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Serial compositions.
- noun The theory or composition of serial music.
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- noun music
Music , especially from the 20th century, in whichthemes are based on a definiteorder ofnotes of an equal-temperedscale .
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- noun 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hardly a week goes by that I don't see another variation on the "serialism is to blame for classical's marginalization" trope, but I could just as easily argue that said marginalization correlates nicely with both the abandonment of experimental modernism and the domestication of radical minimalism.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Schoenberg got it right: serialism is the result of a neo-Classical impulse, not a Romantic one.
Naming of Parts Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Schoenberg got it right: serialism is the result of a neo-Classical impulse, not a Romantic one.
Archive 2007-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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The result of this search for a new system was called serialism, or 12-tone composition. was redefining the profile of French music, with a style that transferred the ideals of opera Pelléas and Mélisande was first performed in
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The result of this search for a new system was called serialism, or 12-tone composition. was redefining the profile of French music, with a style that transferred the ideals of opera Pelléas and Mélisande was first performed in
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The result of this search for a new system was called serialism, or 12-tone composition. was redefining the profile of French music, with a style that transferred the ideals of opera Pelléas and Mélisande was first performed in
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Composed in the late 1930s – with one ear directed toward the rise of fascism, and the other turned to the conservative critics complaining about his progressive, atonal style – the work combines elements of 12-tone serialism, nostalgic lyricism and folk dance, all couched in the swashbuckling rhetoric of the Romantic concerto.
Ehnes/LSO/Noseda - review Guy Dammann 2010
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Minimalist music developed in the U.S. during the 1960s as an alternative to the complexities of academic serialism on the one hand, and "chance" music on the other.
P Barbara Jepson 2010
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But there's something else in early Reich, Glass and Riley, too – an insistence on returning music to the roots that all three composers felt European modernisms, such as serialism, had left behind: melody, modality and rhythm.
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Many of Spicer's poems manifest a doubling effect, where serialism becomes a structure for the poem.
Quaytman Explores Terrain Between Text and Image in New SFMOMA Show The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Dunne’s own theory about how time worked, which he called serialism, was hard to follow, but An Experiment With Time was influential because it encouraged thousands of readers to keep dream diaries and to see if their presentiments materialised.
The vision collector: the man who used dreams and premonitions to predict the future Sam Knight 2022
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