ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Serialist

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Serialist is an adjective meaning (music) Of, pertaining to, or employing serialism.

Meaning

(music) Of, pertaining to, or employing serialism.

More Meanings

  1. (criminology) A serial offender; usually a serial killer, but may also include a serial rapist or serial arsonist depending on the context.
  2. A writer or creator of serials; someone who creates a work that is published in installments.
  3. (music) A practitioner or adherent of serialism, an approach to composing which emphasizes the use of a series of notes, especially scales, to achieve coherence.

Example Sentences

In the last decade or so, this once unabashedly complex serialist, now 68, seems to have allowed a lyrical generosity into his works.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include serialistic, spectralist, scalar, soloistic, stylometric, structuralist.

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