serialism

noun

Meaning

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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Related words

serial music(English)schillinger system(English)set theory(English)serial art(English)locrian mode(English)harmonic series(English)scale(English)structuralism(English)aleatory(English)aleatoric(English)tonality(English)nono(English)

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