All his works, though, retain a very particular strangeness, down to his singular compositional technique and virtuoso capturing of light.

But his analysis explains layer after layer of compositional technique, showing remarkable key progressions, sophisticated formal processes, utterly original felicities of orchestration, and so on.

The only two sections which exclude the cantus firmus use another common compositional technique of the day, that of canon.

The eighties saw the production of many works that take advantage of this new compositional technique.

This definition distinguishes music, as an end in itself, from compositional technique, and from sounds as purely physical objects.