{"id":43742,"date":"2024-05-22T19:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9e848117-92a2-4f48-823e-55d1a81eb631"},"modified":"2024-05-29T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:37:15","slug":"serialism-a-guide-to-classical-musics-most-divisive-musical-technique","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/serialism-a-guide-to-classical-musics-most-divisive-musical-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Serialism: a guide to classical music’s most divisive musical technique"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Wednesday, 22 May 2024 at 17:29 PM<\/p>

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Serialism is a compositional technique pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg<\/a><\/strong> using all 12 notes of the western scale \u2013 all within a fixed set of rules.<\/p>

No single musical technique has elicited such extravagant praise or such pungent opprobrium. Reading its leading exponents, it\u2019s sometimes hard to tell which side they think they\u2019re on. \u2018What we were doing,\u2019 proclaimed serialist apostle Pierre Boulez<\/a><\/strong> in 1963, \u2018was to annihilate the will of the composer in favour of a predetermining system\u2019.<\/p>