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What does serialism mean?

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Noun
  1. (music) Music, especially from the 20th century, in which themes are based on a definite order of notes of an equal-tempered scale.
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His response, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, was a series of pieces that broke the mould of the serialism that was then the lingua franca of the avant-garde.
The Piano Fantasy, a watershed work in Ramey's output, came about as a consequence of his exploration of serialism.
The unravelling of these very complex strands, and relating them specifically to musical serialism, is one of the major strengths of the book.
His first major piece written in dodecaphonic serialism, it definitely falls under the category of Hard.
These composers returned to Korea with contemporary Western compositional styles, techniques including serialism and genres including electronic and computer music.
Rejecting Schoenberg's serialism, he was much more interested in the styles of Scriabin and the nationalists Granados, de Falla and Albéniz.

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