serialism
noun
serialist
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a word derived from
serialism.
Example Sentences
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Trained as a strict serialist, Saariaho was exposed in the early 1980s to the sonic haze of spectralist composers like Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
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
Here and there, passages of gritty harmonic intensity, brief eruptions of skittish instrumental lines, and other restless touches remind you that he earned a doctorate at Princeton under the serialist Milton Babbitt.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2016
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
