serialist

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Daunted by the serialist compositional style that held sway in academia, Mr. Johnson turned to visual art.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023

He launched music-appreciation projects on television at a time when network executives considered Stravinsky’s serialist score “The Flood,” with choreography by Balanchine, suitable for a mass public.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

Here and there, passages of gritty harmonic intensity, brief eruptions of skittish instrumental lines, and other restless touches remind you that he earned a doctorate at Princeton under the serialist Milton Babbitt.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2016

Yet, even while he was studying with Boulez and embracing the European serialist movement, he was already beginning to flourish as a film composer.

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2012

‘Elitist’ is an overused word, tinged with resentment, but in describing serialist self-justification of the twentieth century it is spot on.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall