Examples of serialism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web University music departments were dominated by an approach whose variants were known as atonality, twelve-tone music, and serialism. — Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021 And the serialism and the sadness and the all of it. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2021 Drawing from symphonies, chamber music and conceptualism, electro-acoustic fusions, neo-romanticism and choral music, string quartets, song cycles and serialism, Reynolds embraces and expands many traditions. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019 Although the compositional method is related to mid-century serialism, the formula tends to yield tonal-sounding motifs, with Michael’s theme hovering around D minor. — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019 Wuorinen, who marks his 80th birthday later this year, was once the orchestra’s composer-in-residence, at a time when his commitment to the principles of serialism was more orthodox and pronounced. — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018 Thomson, rejecting the hyper-complexity of European styles like serialism that dominated post-World War II composition, frequently drew on the sounds of his Missouri childhood for inspiration. — Ryan Ebright, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017 This work comes from 1944, before the composer’s more radical move toward total serialism. — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017 Like his compatriots Krzysztof Penderecki and Witold Lutoslawski, Mr. Gorecki had in his early work experimented with modernist techniques like serialism. — William Robin, New York Times, 9 June 2017

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