Word: serializer
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...century atonality, which both moved toward giving an equal significance to each of the twelve tones. It is a method which has dominated the musical life of this century, eventually exercising a hold even on Igor Stravinsky, the man who had once seemed the great opponent of this serial technique...
Other critics attack Schoenberg for negating the distinction between dissonance and consonance. They contend that music, like so many things, must operate through the alternation of tension and release. Serial music, they maintain, cannot supply this rhythm because when equal weight is given to all pitches, none can sound more tense or relaxed than others...
...apartment at 625 Morse Street where Patty and Yoshimura were captured, the FBI discovered a single greenback-denomination undisclosed-that was stolen from the bank in Carmichael. It was a "bait bill"-a piece of currency, whose serial number has been previously recorded, that bank tellers often surrender to stickup men in the hope that the loot may be traced...
...anyone wished to stage a cliff-hanging serial to dramatize the squeeze that inflation and recession have clamped on most U.S. cities and even some states, he could hardly have come up with anything more pointed than the fiscal agonies of New York City (TIME, May 26). New York's woes, to be sure, are vastly worse than those of almost any other local government: no other municipality faces a threat of being unable to meet its payroll or pay off creditors. But the difference is one of degree, not of kind; other states and cities are also trying...
...inlaid pavement of a piazza. The drops, filming the surface with water splashes, broke up the stone pattern, returning it briefly to chaos and instability. Could this breakup not be given an equivalent as painting? It could; and that sense of disturbed equilibrium within what looks like a rigid serial structure was to be the essential "subject" of Riley's work from then...