Sentence examples for serial works from inspiring English sources

Mr. Boulez's early serial works can sound abstruse and severe, but there is more in them than that.

The first two concerts in the series were weighted toward the serial works from late in Stravinsky's career, among them "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," "Threni" and "The Flood".

But he tended to build his tone rows — the 12-note themes on which serial works are based — in ways that suggested conventionally tonal themes.

Near Stroud, he has another house with a vast studio attached, where, not that long ago, many of his 150-strong team of assistants laboured over his serial works: the spot paintings, spin paintings, cabinets and vitrines.

The folkloric pieces, such as "Estancia" (to be presented in late April at New York City Ballet, with Christopher Wheeldon's choreography), avoid neo-primitivist cliché; the serial works have a black-and-white, deep-focus allure.

Mr. Taruskin is probably correct when he writes that, through the use of the octatonic scale in all three of Stravinsky's stylistic periods, he never relinquishes his Russian identity, though I do not hear anything particularly Russian in many of the neo-classical works (Symphony in C, for instance) or in the elegant serial works from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

He had a hunch about "Dallas": "I just felt that, if daytime serials could work, why couldn't a nighttime serial work?" he said.

The first Serial worked because it did something novel: giving audiences a taste of the process of investigative reporting.

This show of serial work has something for everybody, and possibly a little too much for some viewers.

In addition, he wrote concrete poetry, computer poetry and an 80-part serial work, Sonnets from Scotland (1984), with titles ranging from De Quincey in Glasgow to Gangs.

Stefan Wolpe's Passacaglia (1936), from "Four Studies on Basic Tone Rows," is an early serial work in which gnarly, furious passages are offset by an inviting lyricism.