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Serial Music

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Serial music (musique sérielle) is a compositional technique widely used in the 1950s. Serial music composes by turning all sonic events—pitch (height), note value (duration), timbre, intensity (strength), and so on—into series and manipulating them through permutations. This expands Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system and is also called integral serialism. The chronology of serial music is as follows. In 1949, O. Messiaen published the piano piece “Mode of Values and Intensities.” At the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music in the early 1950s, L. Nono, P. Boulez, K. Stockhausen, B. Maderna, and others spread serial music through the avant-garde music world. By the late 1950s, increasing theoretical complexity and the introduction of chance and tone clusters reduced works produced purely through series alone. In the 1970s, B. Ferneyhough and others presented works continuing serial music as post-serialist composers. The thinking of serial music would later be applied to algorithmic composition.

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