serialism
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Messiaen’s first batch of students, in the 1940s, included Pierre Boulez, who would become the de facto face of French serialism and modernist thought.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
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
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
The technique, also known as serialism, entails using all 12 notes of the Western chromatic scale in rigidly equal proportion throughout a composition.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2015
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