Serialism

Definition: Serialism

Serialism

Noun

1. 20th century music that uses of a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition.

Synonym: Serialism

Synonym: serial music (n). (additional references)

Serialism is a rigorous system of writing music in which various elements of the piece are ordered according to a pre-determined series, and variations on it. The elements thus controlled may be the pitch of the notes, their length, their dynamics, their accents, or virtually anything else.

Serialism is an extension of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique (sometimes called dodecaphony), which involves the use of tone rows: the basis of the system is that the main theme of the composition consists of one (and only one) instance of each of the twelve notes in the chromatic scale. The terms serial and twelve tone are sometimes used as synonyms, though this is not strictly speaking correct. Pierre Boulez is a prominent figure in serialism, other composers to use serialism include Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Roger Reynolds, and Charles Wuorinen.

Domain	Title
Books	Gagaku and Serialism (Contemporary Music Review) (reference) Jonathan Harvey's Bhakti for Chamber Ensemble and Electronics: Serialism, Electronics and Spirituality (Studies in the History and Interpretation Of) (reference) Twentieth-Century Techniques in Selected Works for Solo Guitar: Serialism (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music, Vol 63) (reference) (more book examples)
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"Serialism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Serialism" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	21	76,261

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Language		Translations for "serialism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		méthode sérielle (serial technique). (various references)

Pig Latin		erialismsay
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "serialism": serialisms. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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