serialism

By the Late Romantic period music had become so bad and so long that it was decided it was no longer to be left in the hands of people (prone to emotional outburst roughly akin to public masturbation), and the responsibility was to be passed to maths. This was because numbers don’t have feelings and are less likely to harbor delusions of grandeur.

"I just heard Gurre-Lieder, What the f*ck was that? That's a year of my life I'll never see again. Perhaps serialism will be shorter and make more sence"

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serialism

One of the worst ideas in classical music (the other being minimalism), serialism takes the most mechanical form of atonality, dodecaphony and bases not just pitches, but dynamics, register, and rhythm on rows that the composer inverts and manipulates to create so-called music. It's like writing a book by taking a sentence and rearranging the letters into every possible way except the one that makes any sense.

The result is a chaotic, soulless mess that sounds like two cats clawing eachother to death. Serialism requires little real talent since no matter how you do it, the result will always sound the pretty much the same. It is not unreasonable to speculate that serialism was invented by composers who had no real ability or skill and needed a way to cover that fact up. Serialism is a disgrace to classical music and makes even rap sound great in comparison.

Only terrible composers like Pierre Boulez bother with serialism.

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serial

slang for serious. Favored by Al Gore on South Park.

Al Gore: "Manbearpig is very serial."

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for serials

for serials is an evolution of "seriously" which became "for serious" and then "for seriously" and now is often "for serials?"

it is used to either emphasize or question a statement.

1: "hey guys, im preggo"

2: "for serials?"

or

1:im am for serials going to explode if we dont get to a bathroom soon, yo.

serial

serial: serious. Serial is as serious as serial killers. So serious - more serious than cereal. Not as funny as cereal, but more concerned.

usu. in response: exp:

Richard, I'm pregnant!
Are you serial?
Holy rusted metal batman!
Are you serial?

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serial

short for "serious"

"What? Are you serial?"

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Serial

Another way to say "serious".

"Dude, I'm super serial. Why don't you believe me when I say I'm super duper serial?"

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