serialist
Example Sentences
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After the Second World War, prodigiously complex systems of organizing music spread to all corners of the globe: twelve-tone composition, its serialist variants, chance operations, and so on.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
Though known as an uncompromising serialist, Babbitt in his youth was immersed in musical theater and even his most complex, thorny scores cook with spiky American rhythms.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2015
Another new song, “T’wouldnt’ve,” supplemented the fine-etched dissonance of a serialist composition with a chordal turn that evoked Thelonious Monk.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2012
These spare, serialist miniatures are so enigmatic that Holliger took the unusual step of playing the whole sequence twice.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2010
‘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
