Serialism & Serial Music Explained - Music Theory

The video introduces serial music, a 20th-century musical approach led by the Second Viennese School, particularly Schoenberg. It explains the shift from traditional scales to a system where all 12 notes have equal importance, forming a 'note row' or 'tone row'. The video covers techniques like retrograde, inversion, and transposition, and discusses the flexibility in using these methods. It also touches on the serialization of other musical elements by later composers like Pierre Boulez.

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