Sentence examples for serial compositions from inspiring English sources

Tells about Boulez's serial compositions.

Especially striking in his early works was his borrowing of plainchant fragments and other materials from medieval and Renaissance music, which he incorporated into highly complex contrapuntal or serial compositions.

For him there were no modal, tonal or serial compositions, only music with or without colour.

Gives his history as a composer & cites his love/hate relationship with serial composition & Shoenberg.

This is partly because the process it describes is slow, and partly because the book betrays its serial composition.

During the 1960s and '70s, as serial composition became the establishment standard, his work was considered unfashionable.

In this brilliant score Dallapiccola, a pioneer of 12-tone music in Italy, ingeniously combines the techniques of Serial composition with genuine Italianate lyricism.

His 1962 book, "Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern," became a classic text that was published in many translations.

The idea of a Hegelian dialectic at work in which tonality became "used up" and led necessarily into serial composition -- all of this is debatable today, but back then, it was orthodoxy.

There are plenty of overlaps between Pop and '60s monochromes: the touch of the artist is often consciously removed, and there is an emphasis on repetition and serial composition, and a fascination with industrial materials and techniques.

By the 1950s the Darmstadt summer courses, as they became known, were seen as indoctrination camps in the orthodoxy of serial composition, enforced by the dodecaphonic police, composers like Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono.