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serialism

[ UK /sˈi‍əɹɪəlˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. 20th century music that uses a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition

How To Use serialism In A Sentence

  • The only serious study I know of the anthropology of serialism in post-WWII American academia is by Joseph Straus, who concluded that any claim of serialist hegemony was, at best, rather exaggerated. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
  • The unravelling of these very complex strands, and relating them specifically to musical serialism, is one of the major strengths of the book.
  • Although he was greatly influenced by his teacher's 12-note method he adopted a freer version of serialism, and some of his techniques deviate from Schoenberg's principles.
  • Even though there were people like Berio and Crumb, most of the teaching was slanted toward Schoenberg, and atonalism and serialism, etc. Opera Today
  • 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
  • These composers returned to Korea with contemporary Western compositional styles, techniques including serialism and genres including electronic and computer music.
  • 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 Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Schoenberg got it right: serialism is the result of a neo-Classical impulse, not a Romantic one. Naming of Parts
  • 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
  • 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
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