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serialization
[-ization.]
1. Publication in serial form; also, the broadcasting on radio or television, in serial form, of a dramatized novel etc.
1892Author July 49/1 It is desirable that authors should understand the difficulties with which serialisation is surrounded. 1965Radio Times 18 Feb. 15/1 The Mill on the Floss, of which a four-part serialisation..begins tonight. 1972Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 7/2 This serialisation may well prove such compulsive viewing as to create new interest in this neglected German liberal.
2. gen. The action or state of forming a series.
1857H. Clapp tr. Fourier's Social Destiny i. iv. 37 The Administrative unity of the Globe is nothing more nor less than the Serialization of the general interests, operations and relations of the Human Race. 1962Listener 22 Mar. 513/1 The fate of man is now ‘serialization’. We lose our individuality and our capacity for action by being turned into merely one term in a series which could equally well be replaced by any other term. 1966A. Manser Sartre xiii. 214 Sartre, in demanding the abolition of serialisation, seems to be asking for an impossible Utopia.
3. Mus. The composition of serial music.
1959Observer 23. Aug 7/3 This group [of composers] practices a technique of total serialisation, whereby not merely notes but all elements of music (pitch, instrumentation, rhythm, volume, etc.) are used in row formation, i.e., in regular patterns. 1966F. Hoyle October First is too Late xi. 126 The style of this Greek music was more akin to the key system than to the modern serialization. 1976P. Stadlen in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 328 Stravinsky..turned into a serial convert in his old age... In total serialization, the individual note no longer functions as part of a musical thought. |