serialist
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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
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
Lutoslawski, who rejected the postwar serialist aesthetic, was influenced by Polish composers like Chopin and Szymanowski, the Debussian tradition and John Cage’s chance procedures.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 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
