Definition of "serialism" []

• Music Serial compositions. (noun)
• Music The theory or composition of serial music. (noun)

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• "Hardly a week goes by that I don't see another variation on the "serialism is to blame for classical's marginalization" trope, but I could just as easily argue that said marginalization correlates nicely with both the abandonment of experimental modernism and the domestication of radical minimalism."
• "Schoenberg got it right: serialism is the result of a neo-Classical impulse, not a Romantic one."
• "The result of this search for a new system was called serialism, or 12-tone composition. was redefining the profile of French music, with a style that transferred the ideals of opera Pelléas and Mélisande was first performed in"