serialist
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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
He launched music-appreciation projects on television at a time when network executives considered Stravinsky’s serialist score “The Flood,” with choreography by Balanchine, suitable for a mass public.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018
Michael’s first stop is in Cologne, where Stockhausen, with a touch of self-kidding, evokes the modern-music scene of that German city through complex, jagged contrapuntal writing and spiraling serialist riffs.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2013
Yet, even while he was studying with Boulez and embracing the European serialist movement, he was already beginning to flourish as a film composer.
From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2012
‘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
