Music A-Level
Serialism
What Serialism means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A compositional technique developed by Arnold Schoenberg in the early 1920s, built on the foundational ordering of the twelve chromatic pitches known as a tone row.
The strict twelve-tone technique in which all twelve notes of the chromatic scale are treated with equal importance.
Topics that use Serialism
- Area of study 7: Art music since 1910 - Musical elements (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- 20th-century chord structures
- 20th-century compositional techniques
- 20th-century rhythmic innovation
- A cappella
- Additive and subtractive processes
- Alternatives to functional tonality
- Atonality
- Atonality and tonality
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