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| | Stockhausen's New Morphology of Musical Time, Serialism: C. Koenigsberg December 1991 |
 | | And this series of proportions, to be applied successively to different musical parameters (like pitch intervals, note durations, timbres, degrees of loudness, etc.) is what he tries to replace the thematic concept with, in his serial system. |
 | | Taken to its extreme in a brief period of experimentation in the early 1950's, application of the serial system to all parameters, in a total avoidance of thematic composition, came to be known as total, or integral, serialism. |
 | | The determination of exactly which elements to serialize, and in what manner, becomes an essential part of the compositional process, and the eventual filling in of the actual notes on the page is almost an anticlimax (at least, in the opinions of the critics of total serial music, whom we will hear from shortly). |
| www.music.princeton.edu /~ckk/smmt/serialism.3.html (4966 words) |
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