serialist

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Pieces by Ravel and Pablo de Sarasate shone as they should, and the evening’s unlikely centerpiece, Ginastera’s Violin Concerto, was a 30-minute fever dream of serialist fancies and ferocities.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2024

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

Another new song, “T’wouldnt’ve,” supplemented the fine-etched dissonance of a serialist composition with a chordal turn that evoked Thelonious Monk.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2012

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