serialism
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An essay by Young in the accompanying booklet, though, lays out his thoughts on the limitations of serialism.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
It is both “an example of rampant serialism and a commentary on the phenomenon,” A.O.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2020
Julian Wachner, Trinity Wall Street’s industrious director of music and the arts, credits a 1990 lecture by the Boston-based composer Marti Epstein with directing his attention toward Anton Webern’s crystalline serialism.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2018
With the exception of a few European composers still, as Reich puts it, working “in the graveyard”, serialism has now mostly disappeared.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2016
When Herrmann composed his earlier “Sinfonietta for Strings,” he was influenced by the dissonant serialism of Schoenberg.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2016
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