Pairing: Teague
Word Count: 150
Prompt: Music
Serialist
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The romanticism of each individual composer merely carried him a step forward on a well established path it prompted him to. Refine here, pare away there, expand this feature, and suppress that.
Difficult to make and dangerous when made are the sweeping generalizations about the nature of such a composer. The innovative spirit appeared in every age and school of aristocracy, but what of a brigand – a rogue – a man whose reputation always preceded him?
A clandestine spokesman – a trustee – of the emotion for his kind, that with skillful strokes of his fingers, produced monuments of abstract beauty, rather than messages or pleas.
Furthermore, he was a gift, who remained true to his source and directly representative of it, just as the finest tree can only draw nourishment from the soil in which it grew.
For the sake of his art, he was constantly maturing, but always retaining his character.
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Serialist - a modern system of tone relationships in which the 12 tones of an octave are not centered around any one tone.