Definitions for "Serialism"
Twentieth century compositional method which employs ordered sets of tones instead of the traditional chordal progressions to create the music.
20th century music that uses of a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition
a method of composition from the early twentieth-century which relies on a set of fixed elements, mainly the order of the notes rather than their relationship to one another, hence this method of composition rejects tonality