In this light, the history of the twelve-tone technique, so often conveyed as essentially a question of style, can suddenly look, and maybe even sound, very different.
In his last works he turned to the twelve-tone system.
The second problem, an aesthetic one, was that of the emergence of 'the twelve-tone system' as a major and practically universal preoccupation of composers of the day.
Its components may be fixed with regard to order, in which event it may be employed, like the twelve-tone set, in its literal transformations.
The composer engaged intensively with the latest tendencies in music, including twelve-tone music, atonality, serialism and aleatorics, but always rejected the straitjacket of dogmatism.
These pieces were all built on an ordered twelve-tone row, with the actual order often determined by chance.
In the strictest of forms i.e., the twelve-tone form, she examines the human condition; the poetry is pitiless, yet redemptive.
These two influenced him to write many works in the twelve-tone technique.