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n. Music Serial compositions.

n. Music The theory or composition of serial music.

n. Music, especially from the 20th century, in which themes are based on a definite order of notes of an equal-tempered scale.

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

"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."

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serial music