serialism

[ seer-ee-uh-liz-uhm ]

Origin of serialism

1
First recorded in 1960–65; serial + -ism

Other words from serialism

  • se·ri·al·ist, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for serialism

serialism

/ (ˈsɪərɪəˌlɪzəm) /


noun
  1. (in 20th-century music) the use of a sequence of notes in a definite order as a thematic basis for a composition and a source from which the musical material is derived: See also twelve-tone

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