Objective 55.2

Suggested Learning Resources

1) YFIO

2) Video Lesson: Serialism Educator.com

3) Online Reading: Serialism Music http://www.britannica.com/art/serialism

4) Interactive Lesson:

Music Theory QuickThink:

- Serialism in music, describes music that is composed with ordered segments of musical elements.

- A Set is an unordered collection. Sets of pitches are written in curly braces { }

- The Prime Form of sets are written in square brackets [ ]

- A Segment is an ordered collection

- Segments are written within angle brackets < >

- The most common ‘ordered segments’ are pitches

- An Element refers to any single musical feature such as dynamics, durations, intervals, pitches, etc.

- Other elements may also be ordered, including dynamics, durations, articulations, etc.

https://youtu.be/DaFSKiKNF08?t=9m52s

Objective 55.2: Define serialism, set, segment, and element in the context of serial composition