serialist
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Pieces by Ravel and Pablo de Sarasate shone as they should, and the evening’s unlikely centerpiece, Ginastera’s Violin Concerto, was a 30-minute fever dream of serialist fancies and ferocities.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
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
For better or worse, Babbitt, who died in 2011 at 94, is best known as an avowed serialist whose ingeniously organized pieces strike many listeners as impenetrably complex.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 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
