serialist

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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

Lutoslawski, who rejected the postwar serialist aesthetic, was influenced by Polish composers like Chopin and Szymanowski, the Debussian tradition and John Cage’s chance procedures.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 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