All right, so why did you break away from serialism?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Is serialism or minimalism a bigger break with the past?. From Wordnik.com. [All the world's a stage] Reference
Schoenberg made atonality and serialism seem attractive and logical. From Wordnik.com. [Boulez-en-Provence] Reference
The emphasis is on Webern's influence in America — serialism, pointillism, miniaturism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Many of Spicer's poems manifest a doubling effect, where serialism becomes a structure for the poem. From Wordnik.com. [Quaytman Explores Terrain Between Text and Image in New SFMOMA Show] Reference
There is only so far it can go without becoming, in the case of serialism, pure noise or tonal music. From Wordnik.com. [Boulez/Maderna] Reference
It was fascinating to learn years later of a similar thing with minimalism doing a punk rock on serialism. From Wordnik.com. [No problem] Reference
SchoenbergThe whole project of serialism, his Method of Composing With 12 Tones, is a numerologist's dream. From Wordnik.com. [Magic numbers: composers and their clandestine codes] Reference
Just have the guts to admit that serialism (or stuff "you" don't like) has value to the greater perspective. From Wordnik.com. [My Prerogative] Reference
Very few people approach even older fine art music, such as 12-tone serialism, and say "that sounds pretty.". From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Fun (The Art of War)] Reference
You also take issue with the widely accepted idea that serialism dominated new American music in the 1970's. From Wordnik.com. [Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it] Reference
But the fact is, in academia (where most serious composers, including Del Tredici, were working), serialism ruled. From Wordnik.com. [Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it] Reference
P.S.: I don't find serialism all that hard to understand, either, but I was knocked on the head quite a bit as a child. From Wordnik.com. [Odometer] Reference
His interest in electronic and aleatoric music took him out of the strictest definitions of Darmstadt post-Webernian serialism. From Wordnik.com. [Boulez/Maderna] Reference
On the other hand, there are listeners who think a piece of totally-determined serialism sounds random, arbitrary, ungrammatical. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
If one looks at serialism as purely theoretical music, then one has to admit - at the same time - that there are limits to theory. From Wordnik.com. [Boulez/Maderna] Reference
For new music, even more so, now that the serialism/minimalism paradigms have become but two elements in an experimental eclecticism. From Wordnik.com. [Where'er you walk] Reference
In other words, Mr. Morgan is complaining because Pierre Boulez stuck to his well-known program of showing how music tends toward serialism. From Wordnik.com. [Notes toward a review of the Boulez Mahler 8th] Reference
So by the time he played those asynchronous tapes of Brother Walter, Reich wasn't worrying so much about abiding by the orthodoxy of serialism. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Mash of Myriad Sounds'] Reference
I believe that ACD was confusing compositional systems (serialism, minimalism, tonality, your-ism-here) with composers 'compositional processes. From Wordnik.com. [Spark plugs and transmissions] Reference
It's worth pointing out that I was fascinated with systematic manipulations of musical material long before I heard of set theory or total serialism. From Wordnik.com. [Spark plugs and transmissions] Reference
I think ultimately they were kind of working on a vein of music that was a dead end -total serialism- but Boulez probably saw that trap earlier than most. From Wordnik.com. [Boulez/Maderna] Reference
Mr. Steele points to the Orchestra Variations in tribute to Huxley as a supreme example of Stravinsky's ability to filter serialism through the prism of his wit. From Wordnik.com. [Not the Usual Stravinsky Selections] Reference
Mr. Pärt found a way out of the modernist impasse, one that eschews the alienating experiments of serialism without clinging to 19th-century models of tonality. From Wordnik.com. [Arvo Pärt’s Sound of Silence] Reference
Minimalist music developed in the U.S. during the 1960s as an alternative to the complexities of academic serialism on the one hand, and "chance" music on the other. From Wordnik.com. [P] Reference
And yes, the more patterns you know or the more educated you are in the 12-tone serialism the mor elikely you are to instantly recognize the pattern and be delighted by it. From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Fun (The Art of War)] Reference
It's the difference between serialism and minimalism that I think emphasizes the distinction that McLuhan was trying to make, in spite of their similar use of formal vocabularies. From Wordnik.com. [Thermostat] Reference
I mean, in 2008, it's clear which side "won" that particular aesthetic battle, to fulminate about the existence of serialism and the post-war avant garde, still, is kind of...sad. From Wordnik.com. [Compare and Contrast 10] Reference
This could be a good idea, much like that of serialism without the rules. From Wordnik.com. [PORT] Reference
The reigning compositional style at Princeton was serialism, which Babbitt championed. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
I've always thought of Stravinsky's serialism as breathing the same air as his previous music. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Teachers that were mere puppets of serialism, teachers that wrote unimaginably bad music and then there was Drew. From Wordnik.com. [Discussion Forum - NetNewMusic] Reference
Bird song is another major element in his music, but this work comes before he ventured into serialism in his later works. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
He is on record with his belief that Twentieth Century classical music went off the rails into serialism and dense atonality. From Wordnik.com. [BrontëBlog] Reference
Even though there were people like Berio and Crumb, most of the teaching was slanted toward Schoenberg, and atonalism and serialism, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
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