serialism in English

noun
1
a compositional technique in which a fixed series of notes, especially the twelve notes of the chromatic scale, are used to generate the harmonic and melodic basis of a piece and are subject to change only in specific ways. The first fully serial movements appeared in 1923 in works by Arnold Schoenberg.
At the same time he was rapidly developing his musical style on the basis of Schoenberg's serialism , the rhythmic methods of Stravinsky and Messiaen, and Webern's tightly integrated approach to composition.
noun
    serial music

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1. Henahan seems to equate serialism, Atonality and the music of Schoenberg; these things are not synonymous

2. Synonyms for Atonality include twelve-note scale, cacophony, discordance, disharmony, dissonance, lack of harmony, serialism, twelve-tone scale, harshness and …

3. In the 1930s he developed a polytonal technique he called ‘Biplanal’; in the 1960s he began to use systematic serialism

4. One way is called twelve tone serialism. Composer Arnold Schoenberg developed this kind of Atonal music in the 1920s

5. He was one of the leading composers who introduced Japanese audiences to new musical styles and devices, including twelve-tone technique, serialism, and aleatory music (Kanazawa 2001).

6. Ardévol's early compositions fall generally into the style of neoclassicism, but later in his life he began to explore the techniques of aleatory music and serialism.

7. 29 Bolcom uses a lot of Latin America music materials in Recuerdos, and also applied contemporary compositional technique to this work, such as polytonality , serialism, collage, etc.

8. Dessau, believing that a progressive political philosophy should be reflected by progressive music, frequently composed experimental music that often utilized a freely atonal language, serialism, or Aleatoric elements. The Brecht settings of Paul Dessau (1894-1979)

9. An avantgarde composer, he explored serialism over the years, aleatory music, electroacoustic music and also turned towards multimedia composition with works such as Illumination I for chamber ensemble and projectors and Mankind, where the composer used slides, incense and projectors.

10. Milton Babbitt, American composer and theorist known as a leading proponent of total serialism—i.e., musical composition based on prior arrangements not only of all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale (as in 12-tone music) but also of dynamics, duration, timbre (tone colour), and register