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  • noun Plural form of serialist.

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Examples

  • Brookes certainly is implying that all 1970s composers were serialists who agreed with Babbitt.

    Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Those serialists just can't let anything go can they. blurry photo of Kaija Saairaho in Santa Fe

    Seems like old times 2008

  • "Who Cares if You Listen?" asked Milton Babbitt, one of the leading serialists of the day, in the title of a celebrated essay.

    Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Those serialists just can't let anything go can they. blurry photo of Kaija Saairaho in Santa Fe

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • Tonality *WON*, quit acting like it's 1958 and you're being attacked by a horde of total serialists sent by Milton Babbitt.

    Compare and Contrast 10 Lisa Hirsch 2008

  • Indeed, the Mahler renaissance such as it was got started in earnest around the same time that the post-Webernian serialists and their fellow-travelers were in high swing.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008

  • Great serialists -- Walter Mosley, say, or Sue Grafton -- adroitly sketch their detectives 'pasts while adding more layers to their psychological profiles.

    A Hot Trio Of Gumshoes 2008

  • Indeed, the Mahler renaissance such as it was got started in earnest around the same time that the post-Webernian serialists and their fellow-travelers were in high swing.

    "some safe, undecisive [sic Patrick J. Smith 2008

  • Speaking of which, I suppose if the Pentagon ever extends "don't ask, don't tell" into the realm of compositional proclivities, at least Salvadoran serialists will still be able to serve their country.

    "His accordion's done wonders for his personality" Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • Speaking of which, I suppose if the Pentagon ever extends "don't ask, don't tell" into the realm of compositional proclivities, at least Salvadoran serialists will still be able to serve their country.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

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