serialist

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Daunted by the serialist compositional style that held sway in academia, Mr. Johnson turned to visual art.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023

But, ever curious, Lidholm didn’t stay a doctrinaire serialist for long, and the 18-minute “Poesis” is an exploration of elemental sound and stark drama without reliance on stylistic rules.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 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

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