On occasion, a composer may employ the opposite technique for a humorous effect.

Mr. Straus is of course correct that many composers who were vigorously atonal never employed full-fledged serial procedures.

Several composers, specially recent composers, employ different chord progressions.

The composers listed below, who lived and composed in the 19th and 20th centuries, employed this format.

They would then attend an orchestral performance of that piece and discover how the original composer had employed the same material.

The slowly evolving cells and figurations forced one to think of the rudimentary devices that some Minimalist composers employ, though to less musical purpose than Mr. Gandolfi.

Primarily begun in the 1960s, diverse composers have employed divergent methods and styles of process.

He demonstrated that sounds can be meaningfully related to one another without the relationships having to be the exact or consistent ones Western composers had employed hitherto.

The composer now employs a unique variation on combinatorial Serialism based on interlocking unachords (pitch-class sets containing one note).

It is an open question whether Mr. Glass's style is a new manner of working, which any composer may employ, or a recognizable signature that can only be appropriated.