serialism
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With its nods to Brahms’s voluptuous writing for clarinet, Schoenbergian serialism and Steve Reich’s jagged strings, the music reveled in Sorey’s classical influences.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021
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
Like his compatriots Krzysztof Penderecki and Witold Lutoslawski, Mr. Gorecki had in his early work experimented with modernist techniques like serialism.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2017
When Reich was a student, serialism, a genre that deliberately avoided harmony, melody and rhythm, was the only game in town.
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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