serialist

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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

For better or worse, Babbitt, who died in 2011 at 94, is best known as an avowed serialist whose ingeniously organized pieces strike many listeners as impenetrably complex.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2016

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