0 used for describing music in which the twelve notes of the chromatic scale are used equally and each note has the same importance
Kafka's uneasy story of the doctor making a house-call to a dying patient was a subject ripe for setting in a dodecaphonic score.
His works can be roughly divided into two periods: dodecaphonic (c. 19571975) and postserialist (from 1976 onwards).
Serial pitch (dodecaphonic) procedures are not terribly important from the listener's perspective.
The work is dodecaphonic like the third string quartet, though in this quartet the focus is much more melodic rather than rhythmic.
Since that time he has continued developing his autodidacticusing dodecaphonic elements, rotational systems and synaesthetic- and jazz-influenced patterns.
It is a dodecaphonic symphony, deeply serious in tone.
In some works, he employs the serialism or dodecaphonic technique, though not treating them rigoristicall.
The dodecaphonic series loses its significance as a concrete model of shape (or a well-defined collection of concrete shapes) is played out.
