(in some music after 1945) the use of serial techniques applied to such elements as rhythm, dynamics, and tone colour, as found in the early works of Stockhausen, Boulez, etc
Examples of 'total serialism' in a sentence
total serialism
Total serialism represents the culmination of compositional control.
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