serialist
Twelve-tone method practitioner
A serialist is a composer who uses serialism—a method of composition where musical elements like pitch, rhythm, or dynamics follow a predetermined sequence or series.
The term most often refers to twelve-tone composers like Schoenberg and his followers, who arranged all twelve chromatic notes in a fixed order.
The serialists dominated postwar academic music.
Serialism using all pitches
- rowLinear arrangement across
- matrixOrdered numerical arrangement
- permutationArrangement in specific order
- retrogradeMoving in reverse direction
inversion · partitioning · algorithmic · pointillism · structure · ordering
Without musical key
- dissonanceLack of harmony
- chromaticismUse of non-scale tones
- complexityState of being complicated
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
formalism · expressionism · modernism · avant-garde · experimental · radical · intellectualism · rigor
After hostilities end
- neoclassicismMovement emulating antiquity's forms
- contemporaryOf the present age
- twentieth-centuryYears 1901-2000
twelve-tone
Serialism using all pitches
- rowLinear arrangement across
- matrixOrdered numerical arrangement
- permutationArrangement in specific order
retrograde · inversion · partitioning · algorithmic · pointillism · structure · ordering
atonal
Without musical key
- dissonanceLack of harmony
- chromaticismUse of non-scale tones
- complexityState of being complicated
abstraction · formalism · expressionism · modernism · avant-garde · experimental · radical · intellectualism · rigor · systematic
Schoenberg
Atonal method inventor
postwar
After hostilities end
- neoclassicismMovement emulating antiquity's forms
- contemporaryOf the present age
- twentieth-centuryYears 1901-2000
serialisttraditionalist
Adherent to established customs
conservative · populist · intuitionist · melodist · Aaron Copland
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