Mr. Straus is of course correct that many composers who were vigorously atonal never employed full-fledged serial procedures.
His synthesis of techniques is unique and eclectic, and he makes use of microtones (smaller than half tones), serial procedures (basing works on selected series of pitches, rhythms, etc)., and aleatory, or chance, music as well as older established forms.
A widely held belief asserts that during these years a band of rigorous, cutting-edge composers, mostly based in prestigious East Coast universities, seized the intellectual high ground and bullied their colleagues and students into accepting serial procedures as the only valid form of modernism.
Serial procedures were then conducted as described above.
In these situations, methods that use parallel processing of samples to allow high-throughput assay would complement the traditional comprehensive, but serial, procedures, such as GC-MS.
Wingspan-to-inclusion ratios were observed at different cross sections following an analytical serial sectioning procedure.
A serial sectioning procedure was carried out on a shot-peened 12Cr martensitic stainless steel to determine the location of fatigue crack initiation sites from pits of varying depth.
Although the outer code of PA codes can be viewed as an LDPC code, it is desirable to take a serial update procedure as described above rather than a parallel one as in a conventional LDPC code, since this allows the checks corresponding to the two SPC branches to take turns to update, which leads to a faster convergence [4].
As part of studies on the effects of isoflurane on glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission to brainstem neurons [3], we implemented a serial sampling procedure of the bath solution coincident with our electrophysiological measurements.
