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2 - The Aesthetics of Serialism

from Part I - Contexts I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2023

By
Marcus Zagorski
Edited by
Martin Iddon
Martin Iddon
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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Summary

The influence of serialism owes largely to its aesthetics, to the ideas behind the music. This chapter presents and examines those ideas. The chapter begins with a brief definition of terms and then analyses specific examples of serial aesthetics in detail. The examples introduce central themes that recur across a diversity of sources in the literature on serial music. These themes include narratives of historical progress, the significance of politics, contemporaneous science and technology, paradigms of experimentation, the ideal of organicism, and models for listening. Following the explication of these themes, the chapter concludes by considering the legacy of serialism and its relevance today.

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aestheticscompositional theorymeta-narrativeprogresspoliticstechnologyperceptionreception
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The Cambridge Companion to Serialism , pp. 20 - 36
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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