By the Late Romantic [period music] had become so bad and so long that it was decided it was no longer to be left in the hands of people (prone to emotional outburst roughly akin to [public masturbation]), and the responsibility was to be passed to maths. This was because numbers don’t have feelings and are less likely to harbor [delusions of grandeur].

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/topic/95774/serialismRSS for NodeMon, 15 Jun 2026 21:11:00 GMTSun, 10 Mar 2019 04:00:23 GMT60One of the worst ideas in classical music (the other being [minimalism]), [serialism] takes the most mechanical form of atonality, dodecaphony and bases not just pitches, but dynamics, register, and rhythm on rows that the composer inverts and manipulates to create so-called music. Its like [writing a book] by taking a sentence and rearranging the letters into every possible way except the one that makes any sense.
The result is a chaotic, soulless mess that sounds like two cats [clawing] eachother to death. [Serialism] requires little real talent since no matter how you do it, the result will always sound the pretty much the same. It is not unreasonable to speculate that serialism was invented by composers who had no real ability or skill and needed a way to cover that fact up. Serialism is a disgrace to classical music and makes even rap sound great in comparison.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/209010https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/209010Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:34:04 GMTA pointlessly painful way for intellectuals to pretend that they can write so-called music. Enjoyed by people who, for instance, place bits of [cow turd] onto the end of a stick and [hang it] above their mantelpiece, asserting that it is a metaphor for existentialism in [Barnsley].

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/209009https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/209009Sun, 06 Jun 2021 01:34:04 GMTA compositional technique in which a fixed series of notes, especially the twelve notes of the chromatic scale, are used to generate the harmonic and melodic basis of a piece and are subject to change only in specific ways. The first fully serial movements appeared in 1923 in works by Arnold Schoenberg.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/182031https://definedictionarymeaning.com/post/182031Sun, 10 Mar 2019 04:30:04 GMT