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

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

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