His response, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, was a series of pieces that broke the mould of the serialism that was then the lingua franca of the avant-garde. |
The Piano Fantasy, a watershed work in Ramey's output, came about as a consequence of his exploration of serialism. |
The unravelling of these very complex strands, and relating them specifically to musical serialism, is one of the major strengths of the book. |
His first major piece written in dodecaphonic serialism, it definitely falls under the category of Hard. |
These composers returned to Korea with contemporary Western compositional styles, techniques including serialism and genres including electronic and computer music. |
Rejecting Schoenberg's serialism, he was much more interested in the styles of Scriabin and the nationalists Granados, de Falla and Albéniz. |