| 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. |
| Academic music was dominated by serialism, which stressed formal structures over frank emotion. |
| Thus the rigorous intellectualism of serialism and the freedom of aleatoric processes are not paradoxical, but stem from the same mindset. |
| His first major piece written in dodecaphonic serialism, it definitely falls under the category of Hard. |
| Although he was greatly influenced by his teacher's 12-note method he adopted a freer version of serialism, and some of his techniques deviate from Schoenberg's principles. |
| The unravelling of these very complex strands, and relating them specifically to musical serialism, is one of the major strengths of the book. |
