Sentence examples for serial music from inspiring English sources
noun
Music, especially from the 20th century, in which themes are based on a definite order of notes of an equal-tempered scale
Influenced by such composers as Anton Webern, he wrote serial music, in which various musical elements are rigidly controlled.
From all the shards were born different musical languages, the first of which was the serial music of the Second Viennese School.
Serial music and fascism might do a better job.
The constant variations sound just like serial music.
Would it be easier to say I'm an Icelandic composer who writes serial music?
Calling Berg "the Puccini of serial music" is not meant as a compliment.
How else are we to explain the impression, indeed the conviction, that the acerbic, quasi-serial music of the 13th quartet and the sweetly tonal gestures of the two later pieces sound so natural together: not as opposing forces, but offshoots of common roots?
Copland touched on, or created, various aspects of major musical tendencies from the 20's to the 70's with his work of in three major periods, beginning with proto-serial music, to the Americana style, to his work within the serial lexicon.
If you have a portable DVD player or a laptop, watching your favorite TV serials, music videos or movies while running on a treadmill will help you forget all about the running and in no time you will find that you have ended your mile.
Babbitt: Portrait of a Serial Composer provides a sampling of Babbitt's atonal and serial-music compositions, including "Three Compositions for Piano" (1947), "Partitions" (1964), "The Joy of More Sextets" (1986), and "None but the Lonely Flute" (1991).
"I thought the serial-dominated music after the war was a hideously misbegotten creature sired by Caliban out of Hecate, and I had no hesitation in saying so," he wrote.
