SERIALISM

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

serial music; serialism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("serialism" is a kind of...):

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "serialism"):

12-tone music; 12-tone system; twelve-tone music; twelve-tone system (a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row))